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.

- Steven Brust

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…

- Steven Brust

Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon.

- Steven Brust

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

- Steven Brust

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

- Steven Brust

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…

- Steven Brust

True heroics must be carefully planned - and strenuously avoided.

- Steven Brust

There is no excuse for bad manners, except fast reflexes.

- Steven Brust

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…

- Steven Brust