What avail is honour or a sword against a pen?

Threatened men live long.

Witta feared nothing - except to be poor.

I have joyfully done much evil in my life to those who have wished me evil (General Maximus)

There is no gift like friendship. Remember this - when you become a young man. For your fate will turn on the first true friend you make.

I had come down here, not to serve God as a craftsman should, but to show my people how great a craftsman I was. They cared not.

Like everything else in the world, it is one man's work.

Barbarians are all alike... sit up half the night to discuss anything a Roman says.

Live Each And Every Moment as it will never come back when its gone.

Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.

And when in doubt, be extreme.

I am a public person and I have my private life. It's important for me that my private life stay private, that what I share with the people is my public personality.

You fight so hard, so long, to cut someone out of your heart, but it’s not always your heart that betrays you.

A lighthouse is not interested in who gets its light! It just gives it without thinking! Giving light is its nature!

The only difference between us and the animals is our ability to accessorize!

I entertain for a living and I role-play for a living and I can’t help but continue to do it.

I like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that.