When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

Creators aren't gods. They make places, which is quite hard. It's men that make gods. This explains a lot.

All holy piety in public, and all peeled grapes and self-indulgence in private.

And he dreamed the dream of all those who publish books, which was to have so much gold in your pockets that you would have to employ two people just to hold your trousers up.

I tell you, commander, it's true that some of the most terrible things in the world are done by people who think, genuinely think, that they're doing it for the best, especially if there is some god involved.

There are some people who hate my guts. But that goes with the territory.

They can ta'k our lives but they can never ta'k our freedom!' Now there's a battle cry not designed by a clear thinker