Esther Friesner Quotes

There is a vast difference between innocence and stupidity.

I knew the Cardinal Rule of Experiments from Master Urion’s house: The wise mage never tampers with the order of things unless his circumstances are such that the worst possible result of the experiment will be no more disastrous than not performing the experiment at all.

What a hero!"
"What an idiot!"
"What's the difference?

It was an edifice that combined high tech and low taste to an astonishing degree.

If we could all pick our fathers there might be ten men on earth who would have families.

Innocence is only a matter of not being able to believe in a possibility you can’t imagine.

I think the pampered highborn like the fantasy of equality.

The wind had blown since before time had a name and it would blow until time lost all meaning. It blew the dwindling sands of the desert across the encroaching greenness of the fields and forests, past the teeming cities with their needle spires, silver in the glaring sun. It sang a dirge for all the waste that once stretched past the edge of imagination, and it moaned a lament for all who wandered, lost and outcast and alone.

Pigs possess a certain native intelligence and common sense by and large missing from our greater poets. When despair lays its clammy paws across their fevered porcine brows, they do not slump about composing sonnets; they take action.

For magic wears a thousand masks, but love is magic of its own and wears a myriad more.

“I won’t do it,” said Barti.
“Then we’ll kill you,” replied Aliska, who had grasped the fundamentals of religious debate pretty quickly.

Some people just don't stop to think; they're too busy swallowing nightmares whole.

Satanism? In Whitman?
"Mmm-hmm." She threaded her arm through his. "You can find Satanism in everything if you've got the right sort of mind and you look hard enough."

Don’t mistake gratitude for love.

“I’m not a Freudian.” Dr. Fitzgerald pronounced the word as if it were axe-murderer.