If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across

Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.

If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.

The hatched chick cannot go back to the shell, the falcon who has found the sky does not willingly sit the nest.

Harrier twisted himself sideways on his saddle to stare at him [Tiercel]. 'You had a vision,' he said flaty. Yes. No. I don't know. I...Yes. No.

Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.

Assume the attitude of prayer, and in time, the attitude will become prayer.

Of three things be wary- of a feather on a cat, The shepherd eating mutton, And a guardsman that is fat.

Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.

I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene.

Pain is always a fanged serpent, but to the fearful it has a hundred heads.

I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.

Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.

People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different.

Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.

I am very interested in bringing companies from everywhere to sell their products in China.

More and more facts coming out about Osama bin Laden. You know, he never sleeps in the same place two nights in a row, just like Clinton.

I respect humanity. That's my religion. I can't stand these religions that are really businesses. So much money everywhere that's going to buy a really nice house in heaven - or what? I don't get it.

You need to marry the qualitative with the quantitative. It better informs us so we can decide what to do. We can't be afraid of data and analysis. We have to use that lens.

I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.