Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you counted your fingers afterwards.

I'm not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are really the same story when you get to the heart of it. They are often cultural cautionary tales about how we should behave and how we should live.

A pig painted gold is still a pig.

You are as eloquent as ever, Mat," Egwene said dryly. "Do you still have your pet fox?" "I do," Mat said. "He's snuggled up nice and warm.

Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.

Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.

If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.