To take life was to understand your own death--that the Hour of the Huntsman also came for you.

There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is idiot.

Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.

Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good and ill.

Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.

Nothing's free and only the cheaper things can be bought with money.

Sacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit.