I can't leave her there all alone, surrounded by stone walls... She's too precious to give up.

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.

What is so addictive about fiction is that it is the one reliable place in which we can apprehend and participate in - fully understand - the inward world of another person.

One day of happiness is worth more than a lifetime of sorrow .... Under ordinary circumstances, jealousy is a suspicion to the person who excites it and degrading to the person who indulges it.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

The greatest accomplishment of a bartender lies in his ability to exactly suit his customer. . .

I started in music and that's my forte and that's what I've always done and where I'm heading.

I labor, I spend, I strive, I design, I love, I cling, I uphold, I give way, I envy, I long, I scorn, I die, I hide, I want. Faster, much faster than any man could make the tally.

Now's the time to take a chance, come on we've gotta make a stand. What do we have to lose the choice is in our hands.

As soon as she hit the door we start blastin', I saw her brains hit the floor, raw laughin'.

It bums me out tremendously what the church has become, and if it's got me bummed, imagine what Jesus Christ must be feeling.