“Also, in the dismal Cold Waste, any man treasures illusions, though knowing them almost certainly to be such.”

“At that instant the hag's noisy breathing stopped and with it all other sound. Her eyes opened, showing only whites - milky ovals infinitely eerie in the dark root-tangle of her sharp features and ...”

“Fafhrd stopped, again wiped right hand on robe, and held it out. "Name's Fafhrd. Ef ay ef aitch ar dee."Again the Mouser shook it. "Gray Mouser," he said a touch defiantly, as if challenging anyone...”

“He who lies artistically, treads closer to the truth than ever he knows.”

“The dark dangerous forest is still there, my friends. Beyond the space of the astronauts and the astronomers, beyond the dark, tangled regions of Freudian and Jungian psychiatry, beyond the dubious...”

“The result is ... that there's no room left in the world for the weird though plenty for crude, contemptuous, wisecracking, fun-poking imitations of it.”

“Blood memory is described as our ancestral (genetic) connection to our language, songs, spirituality, and teachings. It is the good feeling that we experience when we are near these things.”

“The more serious about gardening I became, the more dubious lawns seemed. The problem for me was not, as it was for my father, the relation to my neighbors that a lawn implied; it was the lawns rel...”

“We having so much fun together!! 'through nature..through people..through religion...through culture..through friendship...we manage to learn something that lead to a better relationship among huma...”

“Politics divides a nation, instead of bringing its people together.”

“Nations and governments come and go, but people remain, and therefore people are the ultimate foundation of what is real and worthy.”

“A hand fought best when it made a fist.”