When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.

Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.

I was dressed up as a witch for Halloween, and wanted to write a story about my black cat before I went out trick-or-treating. I think it went out with the trash the next day.

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

When we come back to fantasy, I think we're actually coming back to the real bedrock of storytelling. Our national or international genre really is fantasy, if you think about the worldwide myths and legends and stories that we all know, whether we're talking about Little Red Riding Hood or the Arabian Nights or Noah's Ark or Hercules. These are stories that cross many cultures in much the same way that dragons cross many cultures.

King Shrewd is expecting me, rather he isn't expecting me, and that is precisely why I must go to him now.

Fitz fixes fyces fitz.Fatsafices.