“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”

“There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul-destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.”

“Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.”

“The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth.”

“You try to give away what you want yourself.”

“Never do yourself, what you can con professionals into doing for you.”

“People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.”