If you evade suffering, you also evade the chance of joy.

Much arrogance is necessary equipment for an artist, I think. Not sufficient, but necessary. It carries one across the gaps.

Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings

But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power...It must follow knowledge, and serve need.

Hope is a slow business.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.