And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.

Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation... Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.

Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable).

You won't regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.

We all suffer from dreams

Writing is a solitary occupation.

Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.

Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.

Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.

The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.

We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation.

How terrible to be a god of change and endure grief unending.

God is the I AM that I AM not the I AM that we wish.

But Froi looked around with wonder. As if he had never seen the world from up so high before.

We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one.' We forget that we still have to make a study of 'and.'

I am stuck in the 70's. I can't seem to get away from that era.

We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin.

Those of you who have fallen prey to any kind of addiction, there is hope because God loves all of His children

Perhaps the reassuring thing about grieving is that the process will not be cheated.

Becoming wealthy is like playing Monopoly.. the person who can accumulate the most assets wins the game.

I'd rather have two girls at 21 each than one girl at 42.