I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.

There is a difference between finding trouble in your path and going out of your way searching for it.” -Jacen Solo

...a third [of three] had died in his bunk of natural causes--for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life.

Regweld is really a fine wizard," he continued, patting the shoulder again. "And his ideas for crossbreeding a horse and a frog are not without merit; never mind the explosion! Alchemy shops can be replaced!

It is more difficult by far to be independent of our own inner shackles than it is of the shackles that others might place upon us.

Luck?" Drizzt replied. "Perhaps. But more often, I dare to say, luck is simply the advantage a true warrior gains in excuting the correct course of action.

And the real thing can kill you whether you believe in it or not.