But there’s a world beyond what we can see and touch, and that world lives by its own laws. What may be impossible in this very ordinary world is very possible there, and sometimes the boundaries between the two worlds disappear, and then who can say what is possible and impossible?
Now do you see why war irritates me? It’s always the same. A lot of people get killed, but in the end, the whole thing is settled at the conference table. The notion of having the conference first doesn’t seem to occur to people.
Someday I’d like to see something rise up out of the earth –just for the sake of variety.
Young people, however, tend to ignore the customs of their elders. Adolescent rebellion has been responsible for all manner of absurd costumes. The more ridiculous a certain fashion is, the more adolescents will cling to it.
Everything is idiocy if you choose to look at it in the proper perspective.
Consistency is the defense of a small mind.
If you’re going to maintain any kind of self-respect, you’re going to have to keep secrets from yourself.
Vanity’s ridiculous, be we all fall prey to it from time to time.
It’s the nature of man to ask questions. – Belgarath.
Isn’t it odd how the little things can change a man’s entire life?
It’s one of the advantages of being a woman. I get to do all sorts of unfair things, and you have to accept them because you’re too polite not to. – Polgara.
Listen to the way people talk. If your characters sound real the rest is easy.
I wrote a novel for my degree, and I’m very happy I didn’t submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.
I’m never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.
It’s gaudy, ugly, and in terribly bad taste. It does, however, suit my personality almost perfectly.
I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it’s mine. I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in the direction of contemporary fantasy, my mind begins to take over.
Women are almost always angry with men for one reason or another. It’s one of things you’ll have to get used to, as you get older.
The one of us who lies the best will get the better of the bargain. It’s a game. A very exciting game that’s played all over the world. Good players got rich, and bad players don’t.
The dullest man in the world is charming beyond belief when he’s pouring gold coins from one hand to the other.
The notion that any one person can describe ‘what really happened’ is an absurdity. If ten – or a hundred – people witness an event, there will be ten – or a hundred – different versions of what took place. What we see and how we interpret it depends entirely upon our individual past experience.