Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.

- Steven Erikson

The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises.

- Steven Erikson

Evil is nothing but a word, an objectification where no objectification is necessary. Cast aside this notion of some external agency as the source of…

- Steven Erikson

Show me a god that does not demand mortal suffering. Show me a god that celebrates diversity, a celebration that embraces even non-believers, and is …

- Steven Erikson

The lesson of history is that no one learns.

- Steven Erikson

There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived.

- Steven Erikson

It is an extraordinary act of courage,' said Tulas Shorn, 'to come to know a stranger's pain.

- Steven Erikson

Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The i…

- Steven Erikson

Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course.

- Steven Erikson