"Magic, the blessed curse that gnaws at the soul and leaves a void in the mind into which too much that is alien and d…"

"Why was he thinking of her now? Fool, fool, fool. The barmaid had cast the oldest spell of all on him, a cantrip requ…"

"“No,” Horn replied. “I am a seeker of wisdom.” The old man squinted, taking in Horn’s scars, motley head of fire-scar…"

"“Some things change a man slowly. Journeys. The passage of years. The love of a good woman. Imprisonment.” The monk p…"

"Unwise or unlucky wizards learned fast enough how much one paid for one’s mistakes. One sometimes paid more dearly fo…"

"With age comes wisdom. Or at least experience."

"Horn could hear the click of the dice that made up the multiverse. Beneath the struggles of gods and men and monsters…"

"In the end, words are all that survive us."

"He’d volunteered for the Howard Institute program because of the most basic human motivation—tourism. Seeing what was…"

"With age came wisdom. Sometimes wisdom came with an ass kicking, too. And nothing could kick ass like the whole world."