It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered.

As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to.

Cigars should be like onions," she said, unfastening the catch and pushing back the pane. "Either the whole company does, or the whole company does not.

He grunted; she recognized it as relief that she wasn't going to nag him further about Tor the Just, who probably wasn't that boring if he could hold off the Notherners for nine days and melt a hole in the hills.

Sometimes it is better not to know. Sometimes when you do know you just fold up.

One of the biggest, and possibly the biggest, obstacle to becoming a writer... is learning to live with the fact that the wonderful story in your head is infinitely better, truer, more moving, more fascinating, more perceptive, than anything you're going to manage to get down on paper.

If you wish, I shall go personally to your City and knock together the heads of Perlith and Galooney.