I learned to love the feel of good words.

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

If you are going to impose your will on the world, you must have control over what you believe.

I’d heard he had started a fistfight in one of the seedier local taverns because someone had insisted on saying the word “utilize” instead of “use.

You,” I said, “are sweet music in a distant room.

What were you thinking?" Bast said with an odd mixture of confusion and concern. Coat was a long while in answering. "I tend to think too much Bast. My greatest successes tended to come when I stopped thinking and simply did what felt right, even if there was no explantion for what I did.

Each book needs a good beginning and a good ending. People get pissed off when you don't close things off properly at the end.