Madness ends sometimes. The Gods decree it, not man.

Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation... Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.

Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable).

You won't regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.

We all suffer from dreams

Writing is a solitary occupation.

Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.

Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.

Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.

The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.

We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation.

I never said nothing...""I know you never! I could hear you not saying anything! You've got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn't dead!

It's okay to write crap. Just don't try publishing it while it's still crap.

If I didn't choose art, I would have become an astronomer.

Well, you know, what's better? To play a character who stays stuck in the same baggage year after year, or to play a character who gets beyond that and goes to a new level?

The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.

It's very hard to get out of this hold, that's why you either have to scoot backwards, move forwards, or try to get up.

Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

When you say "paying the banks," what they really mean is paying the bank bondholders. They are basically the One Percent.

Many years later, a psychiatrist friend of mine said something to us. He said, "Respect denial." It's a powerful force.