Fencing is more a sport than a martial art. It would be like basing your knowledge of roman phalanx warfare on NFL football.

Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.

No hard feelings about that time in the Crucible when you mixed my salts and I was nearly blind for a day. No. No, really, drink up!

Don't get me wrong, hard and soft fantasy stories can both be good. But you need to know which camp you're in. I'm into realism. I'm a hard fantasy guy.

I can't give you the moon,” the tinker said. “She doesn't belong to me. She belongs only to herself.

My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the difference between dromedary and Bactrian camels. I was about 3 1/2.

Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn’t talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit.