When the Wolf King carries the hammer, thus are the final days known. When the fox marries the raven, and the trumpets of battle are blown.

A beautiful battle is one you don't have to fight

Small hopes can grow surprising fruit.

If someone offers him enough gold, it becomes a toss of the dice, and not even Mat Cauthon could say how they’ll land.

The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.

So, how can I try to be someone I didn't really even know?

So I flirt with disaster once or twice. Who doesn’t?”He snorted. “You don’t just flirt with disaster, you have intercourse with it.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self-mastery.

Let God's grace be the mosque, and devotion the prayer mat. Let the Quran be the good conduct.

Folly is as great as the sea, it will compass anything.

I am the flesh boat of my experiences, we all are , my feelings, thoughts, desires and dreams are captured in my body's pliant cells, fastened onto my DNA.

My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and then everybody makes phone calls.'

I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you immediately.

Melbourne is wonderfully altered since I last saw it. There are some very fair buildings in it now, and things are a little cheaper than they used to be.