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I had the same questions for Superman as I did for God: If he was so powerful, why didn’t he deal with some real problems?
The Ivory and the Horn (1995)
The best artists know what to leave out. They know how much of the support should show through as the pigment is applied, what details aren’t necessary.
The Ivory and the Horn (1995)
Humanity’s whole unfortunate history is one long account of how we attack what we don’t understand, what’s strange to us.
It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn...
The Little Country (1991)
Maybe he didn’t know about magic, but he knew about weird.
Greenmantle (1988)
A body of work may be reviled — mostly by those who have no knowledge of its workings — and yet still carry elements of what can only be considered eternal truths.
The Little Country (1991)
Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so you can get a good look at it.
There are three kinds of kids: the ones that are the odd birds, the ones that pissed on them, and the ones that watched it happen.
Dreams Underfoot (1993)
Those gospels of theirs – if you look hard enough through them, you can find a passage to forbid anything you want, and another to condone the same thing.
Greenmantle (1988)
The mystery didn’t concern himself overly much with the workings of the world. He simply went where he went, did what he did, amoral as a wind that is neither good nor evil, but simply is.
Greenmantle (1988)
“Don’t you ever watch TV?”
Jilly shook her head. “What? And let the aliens monitor my brain waves?”
Dreams Underfoot (1993)
Look, I’m sorry if I don’t measure up to how people want me to be, but this is just the way I am.
Dreams Underfoot (1993)
Our time’s the most precious thing we’ve got to offer folks, and the worst thing a body can do is to take it away from us.
The Ivory and the Horn (1995)
That was the trouble with not paying attention to money. It was never there when you needed it.
Moonheart (1984)
I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.
Someplace to be Flying (2005)
It was the old story, he realized. Everything, everybody wanted to lay claim to a piece of your soul. And if they couldn’t have it, they made you pay for it in guilt.
Dreams Underfoot (1993)
Watching him, Sara knew that what he said was ninety percent bravado. Still there was nothing wrong with that. Bravery was in knowing the odds and still going against them.
Moonheart (1984)
Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors. And this I will tell you as well: One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.
Moonheart (1984)
All of the mysteries were represented, but it was up to the reader to discover which, out of those thousands of volumes, held a kernel of truth, and which were out-and-out quackeries.
Greenmantle (1988)
But while the tale itself, its truth, is of the utmost importance, it is the telling that allows it to be remembered or forgotten. The trueness of the telling is what makes up a storyteller’s craft.
Yarrow: An Autumn Tale (1986)