In times of badness, gold is being worth more than beauty. - Tad Williams

A king’s son has nothing but inferiors, each one a potential assassin.

Perhaps it is fortunate that most heroes who die for their people cannot come back to see what the people do with that hard-bought life and freedom.

It was impossible to see warfare as anything other than what Morgenes had once termed it: a kind of hell on earth that impatient mankind had arranged so it would not have to wait for the afterlife.