Steven Brust
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"Steven Karl Zoltán Brust" is an American fantasy and science fiction author of Hungarian descent. He is best known for his series of novels about the assassin Vlad Taltos, one of a disdained minority group of humans living on a world called Dragaera. His recent novels also include The Incrementalists (2013), with co-author Skyler White (writer)/Skyler White.

As a drummer and singer-songwriter, Brust has recorded one solo album and two albums as a member of Cats Laughing. Brust also wrote songs for the 1995 multimedia CD Songs from the Gypsy by the band Boiled in Lead.

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I'd rather be running the game than playing it.

Maybe it's just me, but it seems like when things are going wrong-your wife is ready to leave you, all of your notions about yourself and the world are getting turned around, everything you trusted is becoming questionable-there's nothing like having someone try to kill you to take your mind off your problems.

No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will cramp his style.

Minneapolis has two seasons: Road Removal and Snow Repair.

The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.

Just because they really are out to get you doesn't mean you aren't paranoid.

Every once in while, a person will do something obvious and direct that is no more than it appears to be. I think they do it to throw you off.

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.

There is a similarity, if I may be permitted an excursion into tenuous metaphor, between the feel of a chilly breeze and the feel of a knife's blade, as either is laid across the back of the neck. I can call up memories of both, if I work at it. The chilly breeze is invariably going to be the more pleasant memory.