It's getting late. I must return to my ship or my men will think I've drowned and be celebrating.

It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.

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

Time is the enemy of identity

And now, Elric had told three lies. The first concerned his cousin Yyrkoon. The second concerned the Black Sword. The third concerned Cymoril. And upon those three lies was Elric's destiny to be built, for it is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.

By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them we should undoubtedly go mad.

What happened to fantasy for me is what also happened to rock and roll. It found a common denominator for making maximum money. As a result, it lost its tensions, its anger, its edginess and turned into one big cup of cocoa.