Advice!Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That is probably why you make such a bad job of it.- Perrin and Egwene

Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you counted your fingers afterwards.

Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.

Strange clothes you wear, Child of the Dragon. Has the Wheel turned so far? Do the People of the Dragon return to the first Covenant? But you wear a sword. That is neither now nor then.

Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.

The old blood is indeed still strong in the Two Rivers.

Heroes in the stories never had to sleep in haystacks, or under hedges. But it was not easy to pretend, anymore, that he was a hero in a story.

Death is lighter than a feather. Duty, heavier than a mountain.

Be fair. Don't present your version of the truth to others. Lose your ulterior motives! Be accurate and pure in your presentation of the way, and you will become the way.

I play myself on everything I do.

Without the a test you don't have a testimony.

I'm writing books. They're still a mix of fact and fiction and will continue to be. I think it's an interesting place to work.

Since the new film has been out, I'm doing quite a lot but then in July I will start doing things at home. I have to fix the house up, see the grandchildren and such.

The ACLU sees the separation of church and state as so absolute that not a single religious word must be allowed to pass a schoolhouse door.

Everybody's got their secrets; I carry mine like a jagged stone in my shoe.

You have to be ruthless with yourself, in terms of being honest about what is working and what is not.

Two significant developments in the past several decades have been the collapse of communism as an ideology and the general acceptance, in rhetoric, if not practice, of liberal democracy.

Don’t ever fight with Lisbeth Salander. Her attitude towards the rest of the world is that if someone threatens her with a gun, she’ll get a bigger gun.