Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm.

By the way, I saved Moiraine. Chew on that as you try to decide which of the two of us is winning." -Mat

Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.

You read too much and understand too little.

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.

Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.

Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.