Like most villains, he was wicked only most of the time and mainly in small-minded ways. - Glen Cook

I have always found the religious tolerance of the southerners amazing and disconcerting, though it was really only an ancient habit predicated on the fact that no religious community was strong enough to show the rest the errors in their thinking at swordspoint.

I do hope that karma is the keystone of the universe—even if I have to come back as a banana slug myself.

A sign of advancing age. You start obsessing about how much you have to get done in the time that you have left.