I sometimes believe his lies are the truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie.

Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.

The queen was settling on the edge of the bed, ungainly with hesitation and at the same time exquisite in her grace, like a heron landing in a treetop.

I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say 'We eat the chicken now!' but the magus had seen that I was considering it.

But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.

He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.

It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself.

Will there be poppy juice in it?" Phresine shook her head. "Good. My wife and I agreed that only my wine was to be poisoned.

Then come out," said the king, helping him, "knowing you'll never die of a fall unless the god himself drops you.

If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me.

Her queen danced like a flame in the wind, and the mercurial king like the weight at the center of the earth.

The problem with falling in love is falling back out of it again, usually because you've fallen in love with a lie. That happens as often as not.

Mozart is expressing something that is more than human.

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.

The logical and extralogical exercises you do in meditation are very similar to advanced systems analysis and programming.

It's always great when you're able to give fans what they expect and even a little more.

There're rules to being the side chick. Rule number one: you're number two.

The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad.

I would love to do a film in Africa.

The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.

There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.