True heroics must be carefully planned - and strenuously…

“Those are good questions. I recognize good questions, because I can come up with them myself.”

— Steven Brust

“Painting consists of long periods of minutes followed by short bursts of hours”

— Steven Brust

“I will do you one last favour, in the name and memory of the figment you have replaced. I will clarify a misapprehension of…

— Steven Brust

“We passed a street minstrel who was singing in one of the more obscure Eastern languages, and I dropped a few orbs into his…

— Steven Brust

“...As we locked the front door behind us, she said, "How do you keep getting in without my knowing it? Did Jill give you…

— Steven Brust

“It isn't always easy to act on what's in your head instead of what's in your heart. And it isn't always right to. The…

— Steven Brust

I’ve heard it said: ‘By his home you shall know him’; and we all know that we must pay attention to anyone who reverses…

— Steven Brust

“Grand," I said. "Just grand. I get myself into the army, stand up in battles I have no business in, get nailed in the…

— Steven Brust

Plan. Yes. Good idea. I should come up with a plan.

— Steven Brust

“Does it really matter what you feel when you do something? Does it somehow make a difference if you're sorry when you go blasting…

— Steven Brust

I'd rather be running the game than playing it.

— Steven Brust

All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the…

— Steven Brust

There was a sergeant at a desk. I knew he was a sergeant because I recognized the marks on his uniform, and I knew…

— Steven Brust

“Well," she said, "if I were the enemy commander, and our assault had failed three times, and I wanted to make a fourth, I…

— Steven Brust

“But we’re assassins: when we make mistakes, people live”

— Steven Brust