Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful.

I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas..

Americans need bullshit the way koala bears need eucalyptus leaves. They've become totally addicted to it. They get so much of it back home that they….

Destiny's Champion, Fate's fool. Eternity's Soldier, Time's Tool..

There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions..

Introduce your main characters and themes in the first third of your novel. If you are writing a plot-driven genre novel make sure all your major the….

Here, I thought, I had found the human race in its final stages of decadence perverse, insouciant, without ambition. And I could not blame them. Afte….

All Empires fall, All ages die, All strife shall be in vain. All Kings go down, All hope must fail, But Tanelorn remains Our Tanelorn remains..

The past is a script we are constantly rewriting..

When gods die, self-respect buds', murmured Orland Fank. 'Gods and their examples are not needed by those who respect themselves and, consequently, r….

Doomed Lord's Passing. For the mind of man alone is free to explore the lofty vastness of the cosmic infinite, to transcend ordinary consciousness, t….

By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them we should undoubtedly go mad..

It's History that's caused all the troubles in the past..

Because I had sought to challenge Destiny, Destiny had taken vengeance..

Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of course, in peace there was danger. Being an impe….

It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity..

It is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction..

Treasures are not won by care and forethought but by swift slaying and reckless attack..

The subtlest lie of all is the full truth..

The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit..

And now, Elric had told three lies. The first concerned his cousin Yyrkoon. The second concerned the Black Sword. The third concerned Cymoril. And up….