It's only water, " she said."Tell that to a drowning man, " Giddon said.

The only way for you to keep your mind straight is to run from those who would confuse you.

A man who fights you as he does is no better than an opportunist and no worse than a thug.

She wanted to cause him pain for taking a place in her heart she wouldn't have given him if she'd known the truth.

In the end, Leck should have stuck to his lies. For it was the truth he almost told that killed him.

I have no doubt that you are more than capable of bringing the Monsean queen and my son and the rest of my sons and a hundred Nanderan kittens through an onslaught of howling raiders if you chose to.

You're afraid of your own anger.

Hidden yourself in a hole and dared to burden no one with your grievous friendship? I will have friends, Katsa. I will have a life, even though I carry this burden.

Your brothers are the foolish ones for not seeing the strength in beautiful things.

But everyone has some kind of power to hurt people.

He leaned heavily on the desk now, as if danger had strengthened him before and its lack now made him weak.

I wish my hair was thicker, and I wish my feet were prettier. My toes are really ugly. I wish my ears were smaller. And my nose could be smaller too.

People everywhere feel differently at different times of their lives.

Hatter!" She would have hugged him if she hadn't thought he'd be bothered by the dislay of affection. Pterry good timing." Dodge smiled. "A litte sooner and you would've been perfect.

It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralise the long-range effects of our national stupidity

If you put Buddha, Jesus Christ, Socrates, Shakespeare, Arjuna, Krishna at a dinner table together, I can't see them having an argument.

It is straightforward — and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given us religion.

To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.

Some of the worst things that have happened in my career, like things getting leaked, have actually been what's best for me, because people knew when I was on that show that I was really growing up.

Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences.

With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not.