His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.

Some people are like Slinkies.They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.

Evil must always be fought.

My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun.

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

The only certainty life contains is death.

It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn’t a hallway?

Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.

It's nothing really. It's the unique presentation that makes me look good in the action scenes. Why did I dare do them? That's a funny question! Why do I act? Why do I breathe!

A lot can be told from what happens in between the main moments.

Only one music comes out of me.

Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know anything of man

Emotions will either serve or master, depending on who is in charge.

They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.

I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.

It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.

Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard.

Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.