If not us, then who? Who's going to stand when everyone else kneels? Who's going to argue for the law even when there's no justice to be had? Who's going to try even when the trying is too damn hard?

Happiness is a series of grains of sand spread out in a desert of violence and anguish.

It's stories that inspire people to change. It's stories that make them believe things can be better.

Your ancient enemy is basically just a really, really big squirrel

She turned back to the rest of us. "They've taken it all, " she said. "They've taken every last good thing in the world."Then she swung the door wide. "Now go and show them your answer.

Why is life so much easier to live when people are trying to take it from you than when you’re forced to actually live it?

Words matter. Without words you can't have stories and without stories we would never have heard of the Greatcoats.

I don't know how well I can fight, or run, or judge, but when the blade comes, I swear on whatever they want me to swear on, I'll stop it, with my body if nothing else.

When you're fighting a crowd, it's good to shout potentially threatening things like "Crossbows!" or "Fire!" or "Giant Flying Cat!" every once in a while.

Gods, man, don't you start now, ' I said softly. 'We're going to get a terrible reputation if we just keep travelling across the countryside crying all the time.

Every time God gives you prosperity and favor to attain His goals and you do not use it, the devil will lead you in another way

Every inch that is not fool is rogue.

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.

I don't want to be known just as 'Carrot Top.' I don't always want to be this crazy, goofy guy.

I'm not a centerfold.

Be awesome. Live life to the fullest. Shoot for the stars and never settle.

The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form.

I remember saying in college that I would never do commercials.

There are many languages in the world; in meaning all are the same. If you break the cups, water will be unified and will flow together.

Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes.