Tad Williams

"He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a …"

"“This fellow,” he indicated the woodsman with a sweep of his stick, “will reliably not become more alive, but he may have friends or family who will be unsettled to find him so extremely dead."

"Perhaps it is fortunate that most heroes who die for their people cannot come back to see what the people do with that hard-bought life and freedom."

"We trolls say: “Make Philosophy your evening guest, but do not let her stay the night."

"Sometimes doing the gods’ bidding required a hardened heart."

"It was impossible to see warfare as anything other than what Morgenes had once termed it: a kind of hell on earth that impatient mankind had arranged so it would not have to wait for the afterlife."

"When you stopped to think about it, he reflected, there weren’t many things in life one truly needed. To want too much was worse than greed: it was stupidity—a waste of precious time and effort."

"In times of badness, gold is being worth more than beauty."