When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.

Well,the fun part of being a writer is that it's like making a wonderful film, with no limit on my budget. I can design the sets, the costume, the lightings, I write the script, and then I get to perform all the roles as I step into each character's skin, zip up, and adopt that point of view. So, to me, they are all compelling and fascinating.

I believed that by fixing it down in words, I could force sense from all that had happened, that effect would follow cause, and the reason for each event come clear to me. But then I returned one day, to find all my careful scribing gone to fragments of vellum lying in a trampled yard with wet snow blowing over them. I sat my horse, looking down at them, and knew that, as it always would, the past had broken free of my effort to define and understand it. History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.

My blood will only buy you that fool's regard. I will pay a high price for you to be respected by a churl. Nothing bought with blood is worth having, young man.

How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?