118 Quotes by Steven Brust

I guess there's just a time for doing dumb things.

A cheery receptionist met Donovan as he entered and said something with an upside-down question mark at the beginning.

Pittsburgh. I'd been there. One of the most underrated cities in North America. People who'd never been there thought of it as a graveyard of abandoned steel mills, but it was a beautiful city, and it would be good to have it back.

No, sarcasm aside, life is always worth living. Even when sometimes it seems like more trouble than it’s worth. Oh, who am I kidding? It’s when it seems like more trouble than it’s worth that I want it the most. I mean, isn’t everyone like that?

No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style.

Boss, she's a _Dragon_. They don't _believe_ in assassination. They consider it a _crime_. If you go up to her and--""Kragar," I interrupted, "I never said that I was going to go up to her and say, 'Aliera, I'm trying to assassinate this guy, how would you like to help set him up?' Give me credit for a little finesse, all right?

He met with an incident.""You mean an accident.""Oh no, my Lord. There was nothing accidental about it.

The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.