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.

Well, of all the bacon-brained, sapskulled, squirish, buffle-headed nodcocks!

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

Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead.

Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.

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

Mendanbar took a deep breath. You could stay here. At the castle, I mean. With me. This wasn't coming out at all the way he had wanted it to, but it was too late to stop now. He hurried on, As Queen of the Enchanted Forest, if you think you would like that. I would.