Change is possible.' 'Change is inevitable.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth.

The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst possible thing I can do to *this* guy?' And then do it.

There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.

One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.

I don’t duel, boy. I kill as a soldier kills, which is as a butcher kills, as quickly, efficiently, and with as least risk to myself as I can arrange.