Doomed Lord's Passing. For the mind of man alone is free to explore the lofty vastness of the cosmic infinite, to transcend ordinary consciousness, to roam the secret corridors of the brain where past and future melt into one...And universe and individual are linked, the one mirrored in the other, and each contains the other.

Treasures are not won by care and forethought but by swift slaying and reckless attack.

The problems for which I could find no solution in fact had no solution.

Everything means nothing that is the only truth.

I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.

All Empires fall, All ages die, All strife shall be in vain. All Kings go down, All hope must fail, But Tanelorn remains Our Tanelorn remains.

The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit.