To be honest, I don't think of any of my characters as minor characters - they're all the main characters in a story that I don't necessarily get to tell.

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings

There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

Persistent smile brings out hollow dimples, and persistent frowns brings out hollow wrinkles.

Do you ever plan to grow up, Veltan?” he asked.“Not if I can avoid it, no.

In the middle of the storm, the ‘a’ of the atheist drops!

The insurance of working with a big, already successful franchise just gives you the chance to do other things on a more personal level.

If God made Adam and Eve, they had children... wait a minute... that means someone banged their sister!

The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside.

Women in politics are more honest and forthright. We are not in it for the ego gratification.

For most purposes, a man with a machine is better than a man without a machine.

We all have problems, and we must solve them together or we die alone.

There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride.