R.A. Salvatore Quotes

In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all.

Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.

I am no longer amazed by how quickly a man will justify his change of heart when a spear is leveled his way.

Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral.

There is a wide world out there, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth and the latter makes the journey tolerable.

Because in fantasy perhaps more than in any other genre, the character is rewarded for making the right choices and punished for making the bad. Ask Boromir.

Never confuse honor with stupidity!

I loved the world of imagination.

In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.

The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.

Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

I need no fantasies to belittle the great treasures that I already possess.

I shudder at the concept of a world tamed.

Drizzt had always suspected it, but now it was confirmed, that "welcome" was his favortie word in the Common Tongue, and a word, he understood with no equivalent in the language of the drow.

And the real thing can kill you whether you believe in it or not.

Truth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist cannot live up to his own standards.

Writing is an incredibly lonely job.

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

Artemis Entreri: Do not underestimate Jarlaxle. Many have; they all are dead.

No one will ever write a fantasy novel better than The Hobbit.

The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.

To view current events as a historian is to account for all perspectives, even those of your enemy

I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.

Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.

I've spared with demons from the Nine Hells themselves, I shall barely break a sweat here today.

A world without dragons is a world not worth living in.

Farewell, my friend," Drizzt whispered, trying futilely to keep his voice from breaking. :This journey you make alone.

There is a difference between finding trouble in your path and going out of your way searching for it.” -Jacen Solo

I'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress.

There's way too much pain in this business for anyone who doesn't HAVE to write.

Respect for the dignity of the human person is the foundational principle of any just society. From a Catholic perspective, it also forms the foundation of all of our Church's social teachings.

The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology.

If we misuse the gift of sexuality, we're going to suffer the consequences, and I firmly believe we are suffering the consequences.

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.

Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.

Reading messed with my brain in an unaccountable way. It made me happy; or something.

Sane is boring.

Change is not always growth, but growth is often rooted in change.Drizzt Do'Urden

How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world, " I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?

First blood is mine.Last blood counts for more.--Artemis Entreri and Drizzt Do'Urden

When learning for self-growth, a problem many people have is that they memorize what they learn, but do not always think, apply, adapt and repeat what they learn

..There were two undeniable truths in the Realms: It was very easy to overestimate a drow and even easier to underestimate a dwarf.

It is a defeat of the spirit to learn one's arrogance causes such loss and pain. Pride invites you to soar to heights and the footing, tentative. farther, then, is the fall.

There are no shadows in the Underdark. There is no room for imagination in the Underdark. It is a place for alertness, but not aliveness, a place with no room for hopes and dreams.

It was a night where the rogue drow felt tiny, and yet grand, a part of something ancient, eternal, and as vast as his imagination and as warm as the love among these five freinds surrounding him ...

, But the streets need cleaning, brother, " Gromph said. "That is why the gods gave us magic, brother, " Jarlaxle replied in the same smug tone. "To perform the mundane tasks of life.

Magic is neither good nor evil. It merely is.

Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.

Of all the crowns that Bruenor had worn or would, none was more important than that of Father.