“The motivations of men. They never make sense. And they always make sense.”

I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.

Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.

I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his actions “moral” after a fashion.

Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.

He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.

Anytime that the Arizona Cardinals play football, I scream at the top of my lungs at the television. And I have certain dances that I do.

Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.

A person knows when they’re in darkness, even when they can’t see. -Nightblood

My dear, did you just try to prove the existence of God with your cleavage?

Barack Obama seemed to think he could win over his enemies. He certainly seemed to believe too much in his own powers of persuasion. One thing’s for sure – he misunderstood the nature of his adversaries.

Normally, I have a lot of alpha readers on my books. These are people that, once I finish a novel, I let them look at it and give me a reader response.

Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?

Men had always told Kaladin that he fought like nobody else. He’d felt it on the first day he’d picked up a quarterstaff, though Tukks’s advice had helped him refine and channel what he could do.

I don’t have much time for stories,” Vin said. “Seems that fewer and fewer people do, these days.” A canopy kept off the ash, but he seemed unconcerned about the mists. “It makes me wonder what is so alluring about the real world that gives them all such a fetish for it. It’s not a very nice place these days.

A man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

If you’re going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you’re doing it for the first time.

Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.

Larry David finds a way to make jokes about the Holocaust. It would never have occurred to me. And it was funny.

You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.

Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.

Too much philosophy makes men mad.

I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I’ll leave the scenery chewing to someone else.

And of course, that makes it frightening to start a new book because you can’t really depend upon what you’ve done with previous books.