What was I thinking? Of all the assistants I could have wound up with, why did I have to choose the one with the scary mother and troublemaking in his bloodlines? I am doomed.

Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope.

Wisdom and knowledge is everywhere, but so is stupity.

He had given her too much. He had given her everything.

There's always a bit of truth in each rumour, the trouble is finding out which bit. - Tayend

Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves.

Happy endings are a luxury of fiction

It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there.

Cery: So, Hem, tell me why I shouldn't see how many holes I need to make before you start leaking money?

Great. She shook her head. Not only am I having conversations with myself, but now I'm refusing to talk to me. This has got to be the first sign of madness.

Unquestioning obedience is for slaves, the uneducated and the pathetic.

Destiny isn't a path any cat follows blindly. It is always a matter of choice, and sometimes the heart speaks loudest. Listen to your heart, because that's where your true destiny lies.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.

The man who commits immorality does so because he thinks it will maximize pleasure if he can minimize the pain by keeping it secret.

Buddhist teachings are not a religion, they are a science of mind.

The United States did not choose to fight Islamic extremists. These terrorists chose to fight our way of life. They chose to challenge our existence.

There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.

When the mind no longer sees itself as a body, forever in bondage to the body, the mind can be free and at peace even when we are physically sick.

A poet's interest in craft never fades, of course.

I tend to roll with the punches so if things don't go exactly as planned, I always perceive it as the universe making things the way they should be.