Well done, Sister," Blind Seer said. "I look forward to meeting this One above Ones. Now, you must make ready. I, of course, am already perfect.

There is no shame in strategic retreat if it lets you remain strong enough to go after the enemy later.

For his part, Blind Seer had no difficulty accepting idleness. A wolf proverb stated: “Hunt when hungry, sleep when not, for hunger always returns.

The only thing I like about air travel is it gives me time to read.

The sad thing is that, for many writers of fantasy fiction, the inclusion of magic seems to mean that logical ramifications and real-world laws both go out the window.

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Reality has a way of asserting itself.

I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.

If I were to write the story of my life, I would shock the world.

The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.

In a litigation-happy society, clear agreements often prevent small disagreements from becoming big ones.

The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.

We cannot be present and run our story-line at the same time.

Mind concentrates: it acts out of the past. Meditation acts in the present, out of the present.

The only thing I have done religiously in my life is keep a journal. I have hundreds of them, filled with feathers, flowers, photographs, and words - without locks, open on my shelves.