The question is always the answer, provided you want the answer badly enough.
Pitiful, puling, like all your kin the slave of time that rots the body before the mind has seen more than a single flower in all the meadows of the Cosmos.
Lexington wasn't a great city, like Philadelphia or New York, but around the Courthouse square, and along Main Street and Broadway, brick buildings reared two and three stories tall, and it was possib...
Holding his icy hands, she slid for a moment into the outer fringes of the healing trance and whispered to him by his inner name. But it was as if she called at the head of a descending trail along wh...
Someone asked me the other day what it feels like to see all my 'old stuff' reappearing, at long last, in digital. And I had to smile because to me it doesn't feel like 'old stuff.'
There are real problems, not just money and power, in my own lands.
She felt angry enough to curse them, but in her heart she knew that she could lay no greater curse upon them than to be what they already were.
January opened his mouth and then closed it. At the time -- in the days of his childhood, his slavery -- the endless, intricate dance of slave and master, of work and avoidance of work, had seemed to...
Hidden within the heart of the great rose of music, he could forget time and place, forget the sting of his cut lip and the white man who’d given it to him, who had the right by law to give it to him;...
The worst thing about knowing that Gary Fairchild had been dead for a month was seeing him every day at work.
Slavery, January understood now as he never had before, made you fear change almost more than anything else.
God has judged me all my life. But that is God's privilege, my lady. Not yours.
We love people differently at different stages of our knowledge of them. As love changes its hape and its nature, we have to decide what we're going to do about that love on any given day.
To the pure, all things are pure, Antryg remarked, in Magister Magus’ best soothsayer voice, and to the unimaginative, all things are devilish.
The pursuit of your power takes all that you have, if you will be great—it leaves neither time, nor energy, for anything else. We are born with the seeds of power in us and driven to be what we are by...
Only a fool wants to go back to the land of childhood . . . Or perhaps it is the longing for the certainties of childhood that makes a man a fool.
Honor is honor, whether one bargains with the honorable or the dishonorable.
It is a terrible mistake to put the rifles of tomorrow into the hands of the ignorance of yesterday.
Can you tell me the difference between a witch and a wizard?Sure, a wizard is what they call you when they want to hire you, and a witch is what they call you when they're getting ready to run you out...
As Cinderella would probably tell you, even a prince who only recognizes your footwear is preferable to a lifetime of cleaning grates.