"Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?" Absently he replied, "I was, once." "And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad a tale in three words as any ….

I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common..

In accepting the Gift you Honor the Giver.

Stone and sea are deep in life Two unalterable symbols of the world Permanence at rest And permanence in motion Participants in the power that remains.

Despair and bitterness are not the only songs in the world.

Futility is the defining characteristic of life..

This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken..

It is the responsibility of the living to make meaningful the sacrifices of the dead..

I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse..

The story of Terisa and Geraden began very much like a fable. She was a princess in a high tower. He was a hero come to rescue her. She was the only ….

We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition..

Steven Erikson is an extraordinary writer. I read Gardens of the Moon with great pleasure. And now that I have read it, I would be hard pressed to de….

Whatever the explanation, it's perfectly obvious that our educational system has nothing to do with education: it's a babysitting service designed to….

However you look at it, in these books "power" tends to be an expression of the essential nature of the person or being whose power it is. On those o….

Gradually, the night stumbled as if stunned and wandering aimlessly into an overcast day -- limped through the wilderland of transition as though the….

It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate..

One word more, a final caution: Do not forget whom to fear at the last. I have had to be content with killing and torment; but now my plans are laid,….

Are you a person—with volition and maybe some stubbornness and at least the capacity if not the actual determination to do something surprising—or ar….

Any belief that puts itself beyond doubt nurtures its own collapse..

When you've tried all the salves in the world and they don't work, you start thinking about fire.

"And you require no answers", Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, "You are sufficient to every question"..