Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.

When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man.

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish and nothing more.

No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.

I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are a thousand right ways to tell a story, and ten million wrong ones, and you're a lot more likely to find one of the latter than the former your first time through the tale.

From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose.