And Death it calls as the stone crow breaks. Streaks of blood malform its face.Death becomes its withered eyes and the shadows whisper, “Lies.” Excerpt from "Lies

I should kill you, ” Kallan whispered, “and watch your blood run with the cries of my people. If I kill you, all my troubles end. And I go home to Lorlenalin, my father’s death avenged.

Think back to the oldest era your mind can fathom, back beyond everything we can remember, when gods were still men who had not yet lived the deeds that would deify them.

Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.

In this infinite space is placed our universe (whether by chance, by necessity, or by providence I do not now consider).

Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?

Propaganda begins when dialogue ends.

I think I technically learned some things, hopefully. But I go to the movies for characters and story and a berserk vision.

ISIS, in some cases like Paris, may actually try to direct. But what it's really trying to do is inspire. So its directed activities are these inspired attacks.

All he knew was that they fit somehow, and that he felt as if he spent most of his life traveling a path that led inexorably to her.

Life's tallest order is to keep the feelings up, to make two dollars' worth of euphoria go the distance. And life can't do that. So fiction does.

To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.