Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face. ... It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth ... into a liar - that I call an achievement.

Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.

I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?

My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.

Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.

The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.

Anita can speak for herself," Richard said. Jean-Claude's attention flicked back to me. "That is certainly true. But I came to see how the two of you enjoyed the play." "And pigs fly," I said. "You don't believe me?" "Not hardly," I said.

I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.

My eyes widened at the ball of orange fluff squeezing out from under the counter, blinking and stretching. I looked again, not believing. “It’s a cat,” I said, winning the Pulitzer prize for incredible intellect.

To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.

Careful there, Poet. I might start to believe you.

Wow. What'd he do to deserve that? Rescue orphans from a burning building? If so, you might want to make sure he didn't set the building on fire in the first place.

The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

Sometimes,” Sam says, “I can’t tell when you’re lying.” “I never lie,” I lie.

What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!

I see Atheists are fighting and killing each other again, over who doesn't believe in any God the most. Oh, no..wait.. that never happens.

He had black hair anybody could see was dyed, and even had one long piece wrapped around his head in that way some men did to fool no one into believing they weren't bald. I resisted a sudden strong urge to tug away that piece and scream peekaboo! at his bare crown underneath.

You realize, of course, that everything I say is horseshit.

I spell 'god' with a small 'g' because I do not believe in him, but I love to swear by him.

Faith ... that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.

You should tell the truth as often as you can, but in such a way as people don't believe you or think that you're being funny.

In God We Trust. It is the choicest compliment that has ever been paid us, and the most gratifying to our feelings. It is simple, direct, gracefully phrased; it always sounds well - In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.

I can’t believe I was ever stupid enough to trust Noir. Come to the dark side. We have cookies. (Zeth)

Do you believe in astrology? -I don't even believe in astronomy.