If you can't hide what you are going to do, do it so everybody thinks you are a fool.

Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.

Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.

A woman's eyes cut deeper than a knife.

Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.

If the world is ending, a woman will want to fix her hair. If the world's ending, a woman will take the time to tell a man something he's done wrong.

Strange clothes you wear, Child of the Dragon. Has the Wheel turned so far? Do the People of the Dragon return to the first Covenant? But you wear a sword. That is neither now nor then.