When I look at my bookcase and see one book after the other upon its shelves, I think to myself, There is a God.

Books are the only things worth stealing.

I've stolen books. They're the only thing worth taking that don't belong to you.

When I look at my bookcase and see the books upon the shelves, I think to myself, There is a God.

A female dragon’s tail is of the utmost importance to her. Male dragons find them irresistible. After all where do you think the term ‘Getting some tail’ came from?

Noontime was absolutely the perfect time for a duel in the dragon’s opinion as this was also lunchtime, his favorite part of the day. As the saying went, he could kill two birds with one stone.

The only thing more unpredictable than magic is language.

The key to having good scales is a healthy diet of venison when you’re just a wee dragon lad.

Dragons were notoriously finicky about whom they ate, and thought it the height of bad manners to be kept waiting by their selected fare.

You know you've written a good book when even the people who hate it admit it's entertaining.

When I look at my bookcase and see one book after the other lined up upon its shelves I think to myself, There is a God.

Society was the only threat to the sanctity of selfhood: an unpatroned library was an orderly library.

One if by land, two if by sea.

We resemble computers intellectually and animals emotionally.

When the people you love are gone, you're alone.

You don't gamble to win. You gamble so you can gamble the next day.

The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.

It has been well over half a century and I'm glad to say we have taken the right path from authoritarianism to democracy and this is a road of no return.

I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.

I have found that if you invest in the lives of people, well-feed sheep will reproduce themselves.

Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.