To the axeman, all supplicants are the same height.
They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don’t say no.
The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no later than the last date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.
The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication.
Noble dragons don’t have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.
Never trust any ruler who puts his faith in tunnels and bunkers and escape routes. The chances are that his heart isn’t in the job.
Never build a dungeon you wouldn’t be happy to spend the night in yourself. The world would be a happier place if more people remembered that.
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn’t as cynical as real life.
I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You’re wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.
A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
