Tad Williams

“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the things that make us weep.”

“If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.”

“When you are a hammer, all of your problems will look like nails.”

“The world is a story we tell ourselves about the world.”

“Some secrets are like fossils - the deeper you dig, the older and stranger they get.”

“The wise man knows he knows nothing, the fool thinks he knows all.”

“It is a fool's truth that wisdom comes from age.”

“History is a wheel, and it is a huge one, and it is grinding.”

“Sometimes a man's purpose is not his own.”

“Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it- memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.”

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”

“Fear is a seed that, once planted, never stops growing.”

“We are none of us what we are in the beginning.”

“Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many.”

“Isn't that the only way to be an artist? To build a world that is all your own, and then create the rules?”

“The best stories are the ones that are still happening.”

“Magic is a matter of focusing the disciplined will. That's all. That's what it is. That's what it's always been.”