Quotes from Steven Brust

The funniest think about time is when it doesn't. In those moments when it loses itself, and becomes (as, perhaps, all things must) its opposite, it becomes a thing of even greater power than when it is in its old standard tear-down-the-mountains mood.

spending your time asking yourself if you're happy is as good a way to be miserable as I know.

Well, it's the Easterner who fights like a Dragon. Wine?

It's easy to consider everyone a sucker who cares about things you don't care about. So who does that make the sucker?

They're worth being scared of," I said. "They'd kill without a second thought." "I hate to say this, Boss, but so would you." "Yeah, but I'm a nice guy.

Law is a reflection of society, justice is a reflection of an idealization of that society.

I've learned something about my own hunches: the only time they turn out to be meaningful is when I ignore them.

Sometimes, a certain amount of waste is just a necessary part of maximizing one's pleasure.

He met with an incident." "You mean an accident." "Oh no, my Lord. There was nothing accidental about it.

Have you never understood more than you could put into words? Many people only have their slogans--but they respond because the slogans are true and touch a spark in their hearts and their lives. And as for the ones who don't want to think for themselves, we teach them to anyway.

I'd tell her if I had two dead teckla I'd give her one.

The proof that these words marked the event… is the very fact that no other words have ever been recorded; and it is well known that 'historians' of the popular school dearly love to mark great events by the words which accompanied them. What reason would they have for ignoring words to mark the occasion except that these words fail, in their judgment, to convey the proper sense of the occasion?

Which makes it life's deepest irony that children wish so deeply to grow up and the old wish nothing more than to be young again.

Eventually, I decided that if he opened his eyes again and saw me there, it'd be uncomfortable for both of us, and Barlen preserve me from ever being uncomfortable.

Xxx there is a certain kind of peace that you find in the middle of a city when you are the only one on the street, and you can hear your footsteps echo on the dry pavement, xxx

When you stop being surprised, you've stopped living.

Her face twisted up, and it reminded me of Loiosh once when I'd asked him to explain how he flew.

No, sarcasm aside, life is always worth living. Even when sometimes it seems like more trouble than it's worth.

You can always say it's magic if you don't understand it; and, who knows, you might be right.

One reason I'm still around to tell you these stories is because when I'm doing big things that are crazy, I try to play it safe with as much of the little stuff as I can. It's worked so far, right? Of course, "It's worked so far, right?" do pretty well as last words, so let's not get cocky about it.

I felt ready for anything, as long as it wasn't too threatening.

Loiosh Informed me of his approach just before he said, "You may borrow them, if you wish," so I could avoid letting him startle me. "I'd like that very much." "I should warn you, however, that I have several volumes devoted to curses for people who don't return books." "I'd like to borrow those, too.

It is a training of mind and of muscle, which in the novice are constantly at odds with each other, and in the expert are so strongly united that it is impossible to separate conscious decisions from those made by trained muscles.

I have strong opinions about ambivalence.