Good or bad, do it as you. Too many lies and there's no truth to go back to.

I stroll along, talk, I sign books, people buy me drinks, I forget where my hotel is, I get lost and fall into some local body of water... done it hundreds of times.

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.

Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through the boulders and insect-buzzing heaps of splintered timber, with streamlets running everywhere. Only we do it with people dressing up and running around with blunt weapons, and people selling hot dogs, and the girls all miserable because they can only dress up as wenches, wenching being the only job available to women in the olden days.

A weapon you held and didn't know how to use belonged to your enemy.

Magic is just a way of saying 'I don't know.'

He stared at his feet. “I’m still very ignorant,” he said, “but at least I’m ignorant about really important things.