“There are a lot of things a person with two hands couldn't steal," Eddis said."So?""If it's impossible to steal them with two hands, it's no more impossible to steal them with one. Steal peace, Eugenides. Steal me some time.”
“Why did you come if not to murder my king?""I came to steal his magus.""You can't," said the magus in question."I can steal anything," Eugenides corrected him, "even with one hand.”
“If you steal from one person is Theft, and if you steal from Lots of people is Research”
“To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.”
“Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books?”
“Eros once again limb-loosener whirls me sweetbitter, impossible to fight off, creature stealing up...I don't know what I should do: two states of mind in me...”