Don’t throw good ideas away until you’ve considered all of your options.

It keeps him happy, Dahlaine, and happy people are nicer than gloomy ones. Haven't you noticed that before?

I thought the trees down in Lady Zelana’s country were about as big as a tree could get, ” he said, “but the ones around here are so tall that they probably tickle the moon’s tummy when she goes by.

The stars were better company anyway. They were very beautiful, and they almost never snored.

He can come up with the most exotic things I’ve ever seen or heard of every time he blinks his eyes.

Life’s much more pleasing when you don’t have to spend all of your time thinking.

Do you ever plan to grow up, Veltan?” he asked.“Not if I can avoid it, no.

As long as people are talking instead of fighting, nobody loses very much blood—unless he happens to bite his tongue.

I was born at a very young age

I am diagonally parked among the vertically parallel people of this horizontal universe.

Eisenhower on Patton: "Fundamentally, he is so avid for recognition as a great commander that he won't with ruthlessly suppress any habit that will jeopardize it.

I've loved many women...I'm not going to lie to you, but it never works...vanity always gets in the way.

Still, truth is how I remember it now. In a way, I am changing the past from my desk here in the future as I write. It always happens like this. This is how we all tell our story.

Thank God for the founding fathers, who set up three separate branches of government. And the media acting as the Fourth Estate.

Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe.

What else is there for the rich to do, If not to relieve the poor of their misery?

I've got a lot to prove because of the criticism over my weight and moving back down a division.

Where dance is, there is the devil.