"Regarding the Laws of Thermodynamics: "(1) You can't win, (2) you can't break even, and (3) you can't get out of the game."

“My heroes were Eddie Van Halen - especially after Van Halen I, II, III, and IV - Randy Rhoads, Ace Frehley and dudes like that. My brother played drums and we jammed in the garage and started writing our own stuff.”

“They can all get some. Remember this! I will do this to all y'all down here. Look at his face. I don't care if you're a flyweight, or your mamma weight! I will kick your ass!”

“It is always man's ideas which drive his actions. This has, at times, resulted in great evil; but as we look around us, we cannot doubt that it has resulted in greater good.”

Source : Steven Brust (2010). “Sethra Lavode”, p.324, Macmillan

“I haven't got the yacht any more. The cost of running it was crazy. But it was so much fun while I had it. I don't regret it.”

“Be fanatics. When it comes to being and doing and dreaming the best, be maniacs.”

“I was living a life of a lie. And I was doing a lot of things, that hurt a lot of people. And stripping away denial and rationalization you start coming to the truth of who you really are and that can be very ugly.”

“It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched.”

“I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destinies of man.”

Source : Steven Runciman (1951). “A History of the Crusades: Volume 1, The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem”, p.13, CUP Archive