Matt Hughes Quotes

But in this age, logic was a flame that must be frequently starved of fuel.

Life is a hopeless rear guard action against an overwhelming foe; still how can we not admire those who battle on regardless?

“We should be frank with each other,” Lavelan said.
It had been my experience that most conversations that were launched on such a declaration represented an attempt by the initiator to gain far more information than he intended to give.

"Then you will have to look at an experienced integrator."
"You mean a used and discarded one."
"We could quibble over narrow distinctions and shades of meaning all day, only to greet the evening with nothing accomplished. Or we could press on and solve your problem."

"Could Rievor be hiding himself behind some magical cloak?" I asked my other self.
"No," he said. "I believe he is exercising that most potent form of invisibility: the one called, 'not being present at all.'"

Half the miseries of humankind’s history have originated in those who think they see in the fellow next to them virtues and vices that exist only in the mind of the beholder.

When all the good ideas have been expended, I quoted to myself, one might as well try a bad one.

"Often, when a stranger says, 'Trust me,' a wise man puts his hand on his purse and backs away."

Gathering himself together, he asked the dwarf, “Was all this in some way planned and predetermined?”
Gaskarth turned upon the young man a thoughtful gaze. “There are those who say that all is planned, to the placement of the last mote and mite. There are others who say that nothing is purposed, and that the galaxies themselves swing where they will. And then there are some, like me, who prefer to walk on, saying as little as possible.”