Because you do not believe?" "Oh, no," said Attolia bitterly. "Because I believe and do not choose to worship.

Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.

The queen was settling on the edge of the bed, ungainly with hesitation and at the same time exquisite in her grace, like a heron landing in a treetop.

I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say 'We eat the chicken now!' but the magus had seen that I was considering it.

But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.

He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.

It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself.

Will there be poppy juice in it?" Phresine shook her head. "Good. My wife and I agreed that only my wine was to be poisoned.

Then come out," said the king, helping him, "knowing you'll never die of a fall unless the god himself drops you.

If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me.

Her queen danced like a flame in the wind, and the mercurial king like the weight at the center of the earth.

If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

I may be a Jewish scientist, but I would be tickled silly if one day I were reincarnated as a Baptist preacher.

We all have a relentless yearning to attach and connect, to love and be loved. This relationship hunger is the fiercest longing of the human soul.

Great pleasures are much less frequent than great pains.

Frank Miller is more of a visionary than any director I've ever worked with, and he achieves that vision better than anyone I've ever worked with.

We're going to hear an earful, but it's going to be an earful of wonderment and happiness that people waited for for a long time.

I try and get about eight hours of sleep every single night. And I like to think that I drink more water than anyone, ever.

One thing in the Buddhadharma is that we are not our body, we are not our gender.

This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit, Which gives men stomach to digest his words With better appetite.