Lin Carter

"What use to covet loot, when even stars must die?"

"Chan’s heart knew only greed, but there was within him enough intelligence to wonder before a man who could see all the uselessness of life, and still exult in the possessing of it."

"Yes, a woman makes a fine weapon in capable hands...slim and supple as a sword blade...and a blade to which no man’s armor is completely proof."

"“If one doesn’t learn from one’s unhappy experiences,” he wisely observed, “what’s the point of all that suffering?"

"Knowing that you possess a talent is half the battle in mastering it."

"The past has lost, as it always loses; the future has won, as it always wins."

"This life, my dear bird, consists of a haphazard sequence of accidental meetings and partings, very few of which can ever be anticipated, avoided or fully understood. The element of sheer Chance, my f…"

"Love, it seems, has its own arguments which are so potent that cool Reason can seldom, if ever, prevail."