I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.

But pain seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?

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.

I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.

Your Reverence, I do not hate any man in this world enough to inflict the results of my prayers upon him.

A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.

Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.