All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what'….

Why do you work so hard to make yourself disliked? I should think you'd find it happens enough on its own without putting yourself to any extra troub….

Most people seem to take pleasure in feeling superior to someone. I'm not like that, which pleases me because it makes me feel superior..

One man's mistake is another man's opportunity..

Appropriate action means to advance your own goals, without unintentional harm to anyone else..

Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon..

Everybody generalizes from one example. At least, I do..

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out d….

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be..

I'd rather be running the game than playing it..

A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one who knows how sm….

True heroics must be carefully planned - and strenuously avoided..

It's just that no one wants to be the one being rescued, we all want to do the rescuing..

You can't put something together again unless you've torn it apart first..

It is always man's ideas which drive his actions. This has, at times, resulted in great evil; but as we look around us, we cannot doubt that it has r….

The novel should be understood as a structure built to accommodate the greatest possible amount of cool stuff..

Don't explain why it works; explain how you use it..

There was a sergeant at a desk. I knew he was a sergeant because I recognized the marks on his uniform, and I knew it was a desk because it's always ….

No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style..

In our memories, there is a graveyard where we bury our dead. They all lie there together, the loved ones and the ones we hated, friends and foes and….

The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw fro….