But with royalty you never know. They think differently than real people. The real world never quite seems to reach them. - Glen Cook

The power to kill becomes the ultimate power in the hands of a man who has no reservations about employing it.

You are a hired sword. A soldier. You should not be playing philosophical games. Not even with yourself.

Bomanz could not get away from the bird, who, if he had been human, would have hung out in taverns masquerading as the world’s foremost authority, armed with an uninformed and ready opinion on every conceivable subject. His cheerful bigotry and who-cares ignorance drove the old man’s temper to its limit.