Arrows are cheap; you're expensive.

Shed your mortal skin and let me take you beneath the waves.

Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.

If you want to write something completely unique, you will probably fail or at best write something without redeeming value. The mind works in certain patterns: the mind organizes facts in story form; it is your commonality with that body of human thought that makes a good book, not its estrangement from the common values that humans share.

Men are fools who forget what really matters while time goes by.

You count up your dead, every one. Always. Recall them, each and all - every face, every heart.

One man can make another's life so much better.