Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet.

And now, Elric had told three lies. The first concerned his cousin Yyrkoon. The second concerned the Black Sword. The third concerned Cymoril. And upon those three lies was Elric's destiny to be built, for it is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

Ambitious men will not wait and unscrupulous men will not hang back. By their every action they will hasten the decay of the worlds.

Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?

Hope is the denial of reality. - Raistlin

Dying she could handle. Dying without any answers seemed terribly cruel.

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.

To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does, a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask, and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.