Wizard's Second Rule The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.

I hate telling that story to people who've been struggling for years.

There were those who loved liberty, who cried out to live their own lives, to strive, to rise above, to achieve, and those bent on the mindless equality of stagnation brought about through the enforcement of an artificial, arbitrary, gray uniformity--those who wanted to transcend through their own effort, and those who wanted others to think for them and were willing to pay the ultimate price.

Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.

Sometimes that's all life is... One desperate act after another.

I've always said fantasy is sort of 'stealth philosophy'.

The training of a Mord-Sith takes years - to learn to handle the pain. I guess it's also why only women are Mord-Sith, men are too weak.