Coming to grips with being a bit of a celebrity. That's not anything I ever expected to have to deal with in my life.

I've read fantasy my whole life. Quite literally; my mom read me The Hobbit before I could read stuff to myself. So I love fantasy; that's what I read for fun, it's what I read professionally to keep abreast of what's in the genre - it's where my heart is.

It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

...if I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.

Dawn was coming. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts.

To be both rich and handsome was bad enough. But to have a voice like honey over warm bread on top of that was simply inexcusable.