Art and Entertainment are the same thing, in that the more deeply and genuinely entertaining a work is, the better art it is. To imply that Art is something heavy and solemn and dull, and Entertainment is modest but jolly and popular, is neo-Victorian idiocy at its worst.

Why can I never set my heart on a possible thing?

What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you are to be relied on. But seventeen years give little armor against despair...Consider, Arren. To refuse death is to refuse life.

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

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.

Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.

The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself.