It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
It's different for every writer. It's not a career for anyone who needs security. It's a career for gamblers. It's a career of ups and downs.
When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
Was there ever a war where only one side bled?
The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.
The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.
She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.
It's important to push yourself to get better at your craft - whatever that is. It's important to grow and evolve with each project.
I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.
It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.
The transition of world agriculture from food grain to feed grains represents an. . . evil whose consequences may be far greater and longer lasting than any past examples of violence inflicted by men against thier fellow human beings.