The stars were better company anyway. They were very beautiful, and they almost never snored.

It keeps him happy, Dahlaine, and happy people are nicer than gloomy ones. Haven't you noticed that before?

I thought the trees down in Lady Zelana’s country were about as big as a tree could get, ” he said, “but the ones around here are so tall that they probably tickle the moon’s tummy when she goes by.

Don’t throw good ideas away until you’ve considered all of your options.

He can come up with the most exotic things I’ve ever seen or heard of every time he blinks his eyes.

Life’s much more pleasing when you don’t have to spend all of your time thinking.

Do you ever plan to grow up, Veltan?” he asked.“Not if I can avoid it, no.

As long as people are talking instead of fighting, nobody loses very much blood—unless he happens to bite his tongue.

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

How can I accept a limited definable self when I feel, in me, all possibilities?... I never feel the four walls around the substance of the self, the core. I feel only space. Illimitable space.

Playing the game means treating your dogs like gentlemen, and your gentlemen like dogs.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

Every human act can be disguised with a coating of gilt.

I think Detroit shows that we've come to the end of the industrial epoch and have to find a new mode of production.

What's a major concern that people, major grievance Americans lodge? It's, we don't make anything in America anymore.

Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.

When I'm asked where libertarians fit on the left-right spectrum, I say we don't. We're above the line.

I don't think it takes a brain surgeon to understand how to read a story.