100 Quotes by Max Gladstone

Energy spent regretting a decision was best redirected toward addressing its consequences.

Anger’s hotter than a star, and endures where stars do not.

To live is to grow secrets.

She tried not to think in capital letters. It was a bad habit. If you weren’t careful, pretty soon you’d find yourself Going to the Store to Buy a Carton of Milk—or worse, speaking German.

One gets carried away when one feels one’s dinner companion has made an inexcusable moral error.

Gods, I love sports. All the excitement of real news, only it doesn't matter so you don't have to worry about it.

You didn’t grow past the old things, just enclosed them like rings in a tree, so someone feeling the bark of you could suss out your old scars.

No city is one city, as no one mind is altogether and only itself. A woman is many women, a man is many men, a city is many cities—not in sequence, but all at once.

A grin, Zanj had always felt personally, was more a state of mind than a set of the lips.