Futility is the defining characteristic of life.

- Stephen R. Donaldson

Despair and bitterness are not the only songs in the world

- Stephen R. Donaldson

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

- Stephen R. Donaldson

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

- Stephen R. Donaldson

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

- Stephen R. Donaldson

"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 …

- Stephen R. Donaldson

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

- Stephen R. Donaldson

In accepting the Gift you Honor the Giver

- Stephen R. Donaldson

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

- Stephen R. Donaldson