One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.

In real life, things don't all end at the nice same place. To keep the story real, there has to be kind of a ragged edge at the end of a novel.

That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.

Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.

I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness I thought long dead. I think myself cured of all spite, but when I touch pen to paper, the hurt of a boy bleeds out with the sea-spawned ink, until I suspect each carefully formed black letter scabs over some ancient scarlet wound.

I do not know whom I wish to win; until I do, I will let no player be eliminated.

I am the King's Fool. He is the King-In-Wating. Let him wait.