Too trying, this is all far too trying, Parma thought. An ogre I may outwit or a Rahg I may defeat, but a horde of frightened villagers? Auay! How does Brandegan put up with it?

It's good to know that challenges are designed to make me and not to break me.

It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous.

May I die like a dog rather than hasten the ripening of a sentence by a single second!

Celebrity is hawking make-up, cars, everything; it's shifted.

To abandon the principle of simplicity would be to abandon all reasoning about the external world

Don't grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

Zeal and duty are not slow But on occasion's forelock watchful wait.

Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are.

I'm not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I'm right.

When you drop bombs on the enemy, you drop those same bombs on yourself, your own country.