Kingship quotes

The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh?

When you are out of favor, so to speak, it's not just the reviewers. It's the editors, the publishers, they don't want you anymore, you're just gone and you've been written out of history as effectively as the old Stalinists would write someone else out, take their photograph out of a book.

if you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete.

In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with.

Other people can think ahead all they want. I just focus on the task at hand and try to move on.

Men of all lands and climes are brothers.

The greatness of every mighty organization embodying an idea in this world lies in the religious fanaticism and intolerance with which, fanatically convinced of its own right, it intolerantly imposes its will against all others.

Mattia was right: the days had slipped over her skin like a solvent, one after the other, each removing a very thin layer of pigment from her tattoo, and from both of their memories. The outlines, like the circumstances, were still there, black and well delineated, but the colors had merged together until they faded into a dull, uniform tonality, a neutral absence of meaning.

Etiquette is what you are doing and saying when people are looking and listening. What you are thinking is your business.

Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen.