We didn't make the world. All we have to do is live in it..

There is no life which does not possess its own importance, no life which may not be touched by greatness at any time -- Yes, be touched by greatness….

Joy is in the ears that hear..

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

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

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

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

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

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….

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

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

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….

"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..