The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.

There are no right answers to wrong questions.

The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that she and she alone is in charge of that pencil, and responsible, she and she alone, for what it writes on that paper.

When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?, I have to say no! I always WAS a writer.

To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place.

What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.

A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it.