Empathy? What’s that?” Glokta winced as he rubbed at his aching leg. “It’s a sad fact, but pain only makes you sorry for yourself.

There was no such thing as luck. Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity. More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.

Those with the least always lose the most in war.

Sometimes, when someone lives in danger for too long, the only time they feel alive is when death's breathing on their shoulder.

Women on the streets want money when we meet. I take them for a little ride, chop, chop, chop.

Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue. A man who has learned not to feel fear will find the fatigue of daily life enormously diminished.

Writers are idiots with Underwoods.

All created things are impermanent. Strive diligently.

I designed it, the tailors wanted the kilt as a high joint but I wanted mine low like a Jedi.

I do some of my stunts for the things I have learned. But if it is for something I have never learned, then I use a double.

To succeed in life, we must stay within our strength zone but continually move outside our comfort zone.

I am God. So it’s easy to play him. They say God is in all things. So if God is in me, then I am in God. Therefore, I am God. God does not exist without me.

I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.

Beyond ideas, there's a field. Will you meet me there?