We like to think that the fate of the Earth and the fate of human worlds are the same thing, but we're not as important as that.

"Romanticizing the past" is a familiar accusation, made mostly by people who think it is more grown-up to romanticize the future.

In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action.

Hope, like despair, is something of a distraction: it gets in the way of a clear view of the horizon.

I think we take the history we want to take in order to back up the stories we want to hear.

The world we are in today is likely to end catastrophically, as many other human worlds have done before.

A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest. I think that kind of thing is an abuse of history.

It's always hard for an author to determine his own intentions, especially in retrospect.

Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.

If you see yourself as a man, no one will dare to see you as a kid.

Frustration is having a debate with a blind man on shades of red

Liadan," he said, staring intently at the ground. "Yes," I whispered. "Don't wed that man Eamonn. Tell him, if he takes you, he's a dead." --Bran

First rule of magic: Don't let anyone know your real name. Names have power.

Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .

I'll be damned, you got laid.

If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die.

In order to take our lives to the next level, we must realize that the same pattern of thinking that has gotten us to where we are now will not get us to where we want to go.

We are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness.