You won't regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.

Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation... Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.

Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable).

We all suffer from dreams

Writing is a solitary occupation.

Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.

Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.

Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.

The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.

We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation.

Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets.

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

Every action we take has consequences, Vin," Kelsier said. "I've found that in both Allomancy and life, the person who can best judge the consequences of their actions will be the most successful.

The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.

My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

It's important to have female solidarity and support each other and other actresses.

I know the bottom of the Justice Department, and I know the top.

There is a point beyond which conciliation looks like capitulation. I do not believe I passed that point, but others have thought otherwise.

We won't know for a few years.

Well, I am an extremely beautiful person.

Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man?