Sometimes people need reasons for things, even when there are no reasons. That's what makes people believe in conspiracies or religions - if there is any difference. The world is just too complicated, so they need simple explanations.

— Tad Williams

They were all becoming brothers, in the manner he had seen before: facing death together was the greatest of levelers.

— Tad Williams

Was Briny the only person who could hear the venom dripping from the woman’s tongue? What good was beauty — a mature beauty, but beauty nonetheless — if it cloaked such a viperous soul?

— Tad Williams

Welcome to the Information Jungle.

— Tad Williams

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

— Tad Williams

Whatever my ancestors did to you, none of them consulted me.

— Tad Williams

What's the light of Heaven look like on earth? Like sunlight streaming through clouds in the tackiest garage sale painting you ever saw. Really, it's so beautiful it's embarrassing. No subtlety whatsoever.

— Tad Williams

When you stopped to think about it, he reflected, there weren't many things in life one truly needed. To want too much was worse than greed: it was stupidity - a waste of precious time and effort.

— Tad Williams

You are only a prisoner when you surrender.

— Tad Williams

-You're pretty hard-boiled, Tinker Bell.-Call me that name again, and you'll be wondering how your bollocks wound up lodged in your windpipe--from below. Just because we don't get to your side of things much anymore doesn't mean we don't know anything. 'If you believe in fairies, clap your hands!' If you believe in fairies, kiss my rosy pink ass is more like it. Now are you going to shut your gob or not?

— Tad Williams