I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator.

Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope.

Wisdom and knowledge is everywhere, but so is stupity.

He had given her too much. He had given her everything.

What was I thinking? Of all the assistants I could have wound up with, why did I have to choose the one with the scary mother and troublemaking in his bloodlines? I am doomed.

There's always a bit of truth in each rumour, the trouble is finding out which bit. - Tayend

Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves.

Happy endings are a luxury of fiction

It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there.

Cery: So, Hem, tell me why I shouldn't see how many holes I need to make before you start leaking money?

Great. She shook her head. Not only am I having conversations with myself, but now I'm refusing to talk to me. This has got to be the first sign of madness.

Great leaders get people to admit the truth because they know that dreams are buried under the lies they tell themselves, in order to feel okay with giving up.

We forgive so long as we love.

I learned about opening moves and why it's important to control the center early on

Trouble is part of your life

The way I've been able to embrace fame is by realizing that celebrity is just a means to send whatever message you want out into the world.

When someone in power declares that something is broken that means it's actually fine. What they're really saying is, "Let's change this so I like it and ruin it." Nothing is ever broken.

I really love when people come up to me on the street and say, 'You're my favorite rapper.'

It is therefore proper to acknowledge that the first filaments of the chick preexist in the egg and have a deeper origin, exactly as [the embryo] in the eggs of plants.

We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man.

You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew.