Carlin often said that history was everything, for it was in man’s nature to make the same mistakes over and over.

I think I knew even then it would be my maps that would take me across the world, to places and people unknown and into cultures otherwise closed to me. In mapping them I would...

The world is not beautiful. Therefore it is.

Let them Teach,Let them learn,let them pray,for the world is theirs.

The first thing you lose when you die is your motor skills.

Waiting for the right people isn’t going to get us where we want; we need to go out and find…” She groped for the right word. A mission? A project? A job?”Trouble?” Sicarius suggested.”An endeavor...

A time will come in your life, William, where your faith will be tested… and you must stay faithful to the word and vision that the All-Father has given to you.

Therefore it seemed a dreadful injustice that these wise races should perish at the hands of creatures who were still little more than animals. It was as if vultures feasted on and squabbled over the...

Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?

There is no such thing as helplessness. It’s just another word for giving up.

Death. It was something I had to think about once. Weird, right? Strange that death was ever an inevitable end, but it wasn’t anymore. Not really. I eluded it. Tricked it. It was an odd...

Just a flesh wound.

Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.

You will find yourself, as he did. But that will not mean it is easy. There are few things easy in life that are worth the doing.

White IrisThe iris danced acrossthe ancient Grecian skiesgliding with her embossedsatiny milken sides …

In the Rainbow Jungles of Ever there lives what I affectionately call, killer ducks.

Oh, you’re hardly one to talk. Look where ogling a man got you.

That’s optimists. You bastards never learn.

Her voice was soft and numinous, as befitted any Aizian singer, yet it was not just bells and melody. There was something else in her tune, a strand of solemnity that no Aizian could possess,...

No one is ever beyond redemption, if they choose to walk that path.

Ask anyone what that means, what it means to see a miracle, and they will say that it’s something impossible, but they mean that a miracle is something formerly believed to be impossible that turns...

Michael nodded tersely, eyeing a table across the room. It was empty. So empty. So joyfully, blessedly empty.He could picture himself a very happy man at that table.”Not feeling very conversational this evening, are we?”...

I knew at that point I was more than capable of loving Jack – I was meant to.

Many readers simply can’t stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet of Obeisance … (But) the best fantasies pull aside the velvet curtain of...

It felt like he’d been dragged through the nine circles of hell — by his testicles.

What do you suppose it means?'[Bastian] asked. “”DO WHAT YOU WISH.'” That must mean I can do anything I feel like. Don’t you think so? All at once Grograman’s face looked alarmingly grave, and his...

A geas was a contract with the goddess of Fate. Sometimes one was born indentured, other times it was bestowed upon one as a curse. Because if one did not fulfill the terms of one’s...

Your embrace feels like slipping the key in the front door.

Jake’s in trouble.’Luca rolled his eyes. ‘What now?”He’s gone off somewhere, I think I know where, and I don’t think it’s good.”Cant that boy ever stay in and watch telly like the rest of us?

Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain. Classic thinking teaches us of the four doors of the mind, which everyone moves through according to their need.First is the...

Anything worth anything can be found in books.

Well, can you tell her that?”He looked down at his feet. “I will. I will.”Guy-speak for, “I plan to keep avoiding her until she gives up.

Into the air, over the valleys, under the stars, above a river, a pond, a road, flew Cecy. Invisible as new spring winds, fresh as the breath of clover rising from twilight fields, she flew.

He had heard many of his customers talking about ‘repetitive strain injury’ over the years and he was sure that, if he was capable, he too would suffer this – especially with the industrial tooling...

If you are a dreamer, come in,If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer…If you’re a pretender come sit by my fireFor we have some flax-golden tales...

Our sexual fantasies are often redundant and intense, like many other ideas involving ourselves. Most people approach sexuality limited to the idea that they should imitate other people, art (e.g., romantic literature) or movies (e.g.,...

Mrs. Pott’s beady black eyes narrowed,”Do you know how many glass slippers I have to stitch when I get home? There’s a Mad Hatter serenading a toaster as we speak. There could be mayhem wreaking...

Never grow up!

We all know what’s coming. The winds are picking up, spiralling closer and bringing with it a great wave of destruction…none of us can hide…no matter which side you choose, you’ll be dragged into the...

I hate goblins.

Now forget the damn dress.

Marvelous! Very exciting. I thoroughly enjoyed the story and I can’t wait to read more.” (About the book Dominique Ick Lessont and the Dragon Knight)

Shandy looked ahead. Blackbeard, apparently willing to get the explanation later, had picked up his oars and was rowing again. ‘May I presume to suggest,’ yelled Shandy giddily to Davies, ‘that we preoceed the hell...

CAIAPHAS! FOREVER! CAI—”And with a piercing whistle it ended as his eardrums burst.

… all sorts of wonderful things got washed up on the beach – crates of clothes and cutlery and children’s toys, boxes of engine parts and television screens and electrical wires like tangled snakes in...

Maybe, just maybe, if I ‘m lucky enough, I ‘m still just having a bad trip.

Before she could let herself think, Clara burst from the door and bolted for the table. People just began turning when she grasped the guest and shoved him to the ground, the chair flying backwards....

Not different, but special!

He sighed and opened the black box and took out his rings and slipped them on. Another box held a set of knives and Klatchian steel, their blades darkened with lamp black. Various cunning and...

My love…you were insolent to a dragon? Please tell me that I misheard you just now.