As he prepared to ride on, he chuckled at the thought of the wolf entering the sheepfold. He would not ride with fire and destruction. The shepherd did not frighten his own pretty lambs.

He would never understand women, he thought. They were life’s great mystery.

For the khan, we will take their cities, their women, and their lands. This is the great raid, the farthest strike in the history of the nation of Genghis. We will not be stopped.

Sometimes, power could change hands as quickly as a knife thrust.

The nation of my father is too strong for a man who cannot command even his own body.

A man needs to feel a little fear, Tolui, if only to have the pride of conquering it.

The wisdom of age is bitter when those you have failed have gone.

God had mercy, he knew. The Mongols had none.

There is no escape from me, not even in death.

A writer's goal is to weave the ordinary into fine silk and the truly extraordinary into diaphanous clarity ...

I've always been like that

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

Imagination and reality have little in common

Please act in and through me. Please let my love increase, if it is your will. I feel that's the right thing; but even if it's not the right thing, I'm willing to abide by your judgment.

The only thing I get from the theatre is a sore arse.

I love titles and organizing chains of ideas. I like that very much.

I supposed if you were going to make a career of breaking laws, you might as well know them.

In this world of chance and change and mutability, the fulfillment of any resolve depends on the will of the Lord.

Two years ago, if anyone had told me I'd be doing half the stuff I'm doing, I wouldn't have believed it.