Impatience is a poor substitute for a well-considered plan.
If you'd just try, I'm sure you'd be able to fly.
I could insist that somebody take me to her so I can obey her orders.I think you might choke on that one, Zakath, Silk said lightly. Obey is a difficult concept for someone in your position.He's an ir...
I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't.
I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.
I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.
You're going to keep making these mistakes as long as you keep carrying your brain in the same scabbard with your sword, Lelldorin.
There things we know for certain.Oh? Name one.The sun's going to come up tomorrow morning.Why?It always has.Does that really mean that it always will?A faint look of consternation crossed her face. I...
Priests are pretty much the same the world over. They seem to feel that their exclusive contact with God gives them a certain job security.
Operating by trial and error mostly, we've evolved a tacitly agreed upon list of the elements that make for a good fantasy. The first decision the aspiring fantasist must make is theological. King Art...
It's only a story, isn't it?...Who's to say what's only a story and what's truth disguised as a story?
I note this hound of thine, Sir Knight, he said to Garion to ease them past an embarrassing moment, a bitch, I perceive--Steady, Garion said firmly to the she-wolf. That is a offensive term, she grow...
Most people need to believe in something. There are a few who don't, but they're a bit unusual.
The whole world is beautiful, Belgarion' Eriond assured him in response to that unspoken thought. 'You just have to know how to look at it
Some day, Prince Kheldar, you will fall in love, the queen said with a little smirk, and the twelve kingdoms will stand around and chortle over the fall of so notorious a bachelor.
If you're going to maintain any kind of self-respect, you're going to have to keep secrets from yourself.
Durnik needs a tower somewhere in the Vale, Belgarath was saying.I don't see why, father, Polgara replied.All of Aldur's disciples have towers, Pol. It's the custom.Old customs persist --even when the...
Don't wrench your shoulder out of its socket trying to pat yourself on the back, Beldin said sourly.
It's as empty as a merchant's soul. Sorry, Kheldar, it's just an old expression.That's all right, Beldin, Silk forgave him grandly. These little slips of the tongue are common in the very elderly.
If there's a noise in the woods, and there's nobody around to hear it, is it really a noise?Of course it is, she replied calmly.How did you reach that conclusion? Beldin demanded.Because there's no su...