All knowledge is worth having
Soon never comes soon enough to a young child.
Happiness is the highest form of wisdom.
We are meant to taste of life ... and drink the cup of it to the dregs, bitter and sweet alike.
I preferred a hard truth to a well-meant lie.
It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series.