I’d much rather have good teeth than have diamonds and roses drop out of my mouth whenever I said something

I loved getting my M. B. A., and I really enjoyed being an accountant and financial analyst before I quit my day job twenty-five years ago to write full time. I just liked writing more…plus, I knew even then that as a full-time writer, I'd get plenty of chances to do business-type stuff, while as an accountant, I probably wouldn't get a lot of opportunities to write about dragons.

Always be polite to a dragon. It's harder than it sounds. Dragon etiquette is incredibly complicated, and if you make a mistake, the dragon eats you.

You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.

Of course it doesn't make sense." Lady Wendall said. "The rules of society rarely do.

Nothing you will object to," James replied in a soothing tone. I cannot think how he came to imagine that he would know what I might or might not object to.

He wasn't a medical doctor, just educated all the way up as far as you can get.