At the heart of its strength is a weakness: a lone candle can hold it back. Love is more than a candle, love can ignite the stars.

When I write a book, I put everything I have into it; so the more I have, the more the books become. Some people get freaked out by them: mostly the people who believe, mistakenly, that fantasy is about escaping reality. To them I say: If you have a problem with reality, you should be spending more time dealing with your life, and less time reading popcorn fantasy.

... Corellian curses being a synergistic blend of vulgarity, obscenity, and outright blasphemy that were the only things really worth saying when one was in the middle of being blown to monatomic dust.

I am not the same man you found that day! The monster you've created has returned, to kill you!

Love is more than a candle, love can ignite the stars.

A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth.

Can't trust a fascist--truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state