One day I'll work out what it is you are saying, my lad, and then you'll be in trouble.

Whole new theories of money were growing here like mushrooms: in the dark and based on bullshit.

Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic.

Strength enough to build a home, Time enough to hold a child, Love enough to break a heart

Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.

You have to start out learning to believe the little lies. "So we can believe the big ones?" Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.

I wonder if it's like this for mountain climbers, he thought. You climb bigger and bigger mountains and you know that one day one of them is going to be just that bit too steep. But you go on doing it, because it’s so-o good when you breathe the air up there. And you know you'll die falling.