Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon.

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

I’ve heard it said: ‘By his home you shall know him’; and we all know that we must pay attention to anyone who reverses the subject and auxiliary verb in his sentence.

All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool.

There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures.

No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style.

The novel should be understood as a structure built to accommodate the greatest possible amount of cool stuff.