15 quotes
Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human.
The Warrior Prophet (2005)
I wanted a literate, socially intricate, and cosmopolitan world - something I could have fun destroying.
Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered invisible, and are all Men made fools.
The White Luck Warrior (2011)
If it is only after that we understand what has come before, then we understand nothing. Thus we shall define the soul as follows: that which precedes everything.
The Darkness That Comes Before (2004)
If the world is a game whose rules are written by the God, and sorcerers are those who cheat and cheat, then who has written the rules of sorcery?
The Darkness That Comes Before (2004)
The world is only as deep as we can see. This is why fools think themselves profound. This is why terror is the passion of revelation.
The Judging Eye (2009)
To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife.
The Thousandfold Thought (2006)
The world is a big place and our brain is only three pounds.
Consciousness is something hooked across the top of your nose, like glasses, only as thick as the cosmos.
Why break hearts or blow minds when you can rot souls?
I tell you, guilt dwells nowhere but in the eyes of the accuser. This men know even as they deny it, which is why they so often make murder their absolution. The truth of crime lies not with the victim but with the witness.
The Thousandfold Thought (2006)
A beggar’s mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king’s mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number who obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity.
The Judging Eye (2009)
I write about the death of magic. All of it.
The bondage we are born into is the bondage we cannot see. Verily, freedom is little more than the ignorance of tyranny. Live long enough, and you will see: Men resent not the whip so much as the hand that wields it.
The White Luck Warrior (2011)
Give me an arm long enough, and I will reach across the universe and punch myself in the back of the head. Not because I deserve it, but because I can take it.