This is as 'alone' as I'm likely to get with you - you're not half so fetching as your daughter.

This is for you. A mage named Randal told me to give it to the Band if you ever came back. 'It surmounts evil,' he told me, 'keeps doom at bay.'

It's all right. Things as they once were will never be again, but it's all right.

No ethos, pursued without thought or mercy, is ethical.

Makes you wonder if the gods are always right.

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.

We've the new hard-steel, though why they're all so hot to pay twice the price when men're soft as clay and even wood will pierce the boldest belly, I can't say.