Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.

- K.J. Parker

In politics, it's what isn't said that matters.

- K.J. Parker

The enemy is never more unnerving than when he's invisible.

- K.J. Parker

A wise man once said that any human being is capable of infinite achievement, so long as it’s not the work they’re supposed to be doing.

- K.J. Parker

The easiest way to do something is properly.

- K.J. Parker

If there's a truth and nobody knows it, is it still true? Or is it like a light burning in a locked, shuttered house that nobody will ever get to see?

- K.J. Parker

War is an admission of failure

- K.J. Parker

That was the truly horrifying thing about it: the sense of time as an enemy, to be fought tooth and nail--but there was so much of it; you killed an …

- K.J. Parker

Death is to be feared because of the pain and loss it inflicts through love, and for no other reason.

- K.J. Parker