Minds, like parachutes, function better when open, but, like fists, they strike harder when closed.

- L.E. Modesitt Jr.

While every new fantasy author is hailed as unique, new, and different, Brandon Sanderson's ELANTRIS does indeed provide an absorbing adventure in a …

- L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Hatred is a form of faith, distilled by passion to remove all rationality.

- L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Without power, knowledge is useless. without knowledge, faith is tyranny. Without understanding, humanity is blind, and without all four, it is doome…

- L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.

- L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Humans were eventually irrational creatures gifted with the power of rationality.

- L.E. Modesitt Jr.

If you do good because you expect to be rewarded, it is greed.

- L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Most people don’t care who rules, as long as their lives don’t change.

- L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Deities are invented by fallible and finite beings in the hope and desire to create immortal perfection; unfortunately, such deities only reflect the…

- L.E. Modesitt Jr.