Artemis Entreri: Do not underestimate Jarlaxle. Many have; they all are dead.

I'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress.

We need to be reminded sometimes that a sunrise last but a few minutes. But its beauty can burn in our hearts eternally.

If you can quit, then quit. If you can't quit, you're a writer.

As I became a creature of the empty tunnels, survival became easier and more difficult all at once. I gained in the physical skills and experience necessary to live on. I could defeat almost anything that wandered into my chosen domain. It did not take me long, however, to discover one nemesis that I could neither defeat nor flee. It followed me wherever I went - indeed, the farther I ran, the more it closed in around me. My enemy was solitude, the interminable, incessant silence of hushed corridors.

There's way too much pain in this business for anyone who doesn't HAVE to write.

Change is not always growth, but growth is often rooted in change. Drizzt Do'Urden