Only an idiot would trust a Kelpie this close to the water. Getting on its back with the scent of the sea in the air would be a fast, painful means of suicide, and I'm not a fan of pain.

When Rome burned, the emperor's cats still expected to be fed on time.

If anything attacked us, we could just panic at it until it went away.

It's not hard to marginalize people when they've already done it to themselves.

We hated each other so well and loved each other so badly...

Humanity has always had a flair for guilt by association.

Every piece of art has a buyer. Only Time decides when the right buyer will see it.

It's not a job but a condition.(Alan Garner on writing)

Without passion, all the skill in world won't lift you above your craft

In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning.

We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common, while that which is good is so rare.

I didn't think I would ever meet a noble who wasn't corrupt. Now that I have, I find that I prefer them when they're greedy bastards. (Brom to Eragon)

If love what you can't have, then you have to love what you've got

It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind.

You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup.