To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.

There is neither source nor end, for all things are in the Center of Time. As all the stars may be reflected in a round raindrop falling in the night: so too do all the stars reflect the raindrop. There is neither darkness nor death, for all things are, in the Light of the Moment, and their end and their beginning are one.

He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater detterent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it on demand.

If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.

Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.

In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood.

The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?