Eric

“You don't have to eat the entire turd to know that it's not a crab cake.”
― Orson Scott Card, Shadow of the Hegemon

“Long ago, when I had my Merlyn to help, he tried to teach me to think. He knew he would have to leave in the end, so he forced me to think for myself. Don't ever let anybody teach you to think, Lance: it is the curse of the world.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“Yes, I'm paranoid and xenophobic. That's how I got this job. Cultivate those virtues and you too, might rise to my lofty station.”
― Orson Scott Card

“I swear to you, I was never so alive as when I was winning this throne, or so dead as now that I've won it.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones