True faith takes its character and quality from its object. Its strength therefore depends on the character of Christ. Even those of us who have weak faith have the same strong Christ as others!

You're going to keep making these mistakes as long as you keep carrying your brain in the same scabbard with your sword, Lelldorin.

Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides.

Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.

In fact, not knowing is a necessary condition of writing for me. I don't know how else to reach something unexpected. I have to be as in the dark as my characters.

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

Resolutions require only words. Results take action.

Now the word-symbols of conceptual ideas have passed so long from hand to hand in the service of the understanding, that they have gradually lost all such fanciful reference.

So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.