K.J. Parker Quotes

The easiest way to do anything is properly.

Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.

A wise man once said that any human being is capable of infinite achievement, so long as it’s not the work they’re supposed to be doing.

If the world is a book, are you the hero, or just a walk-on part?

Obviously, there’s no way of making money that doesn’t hurt somebody somewhere, but there are degrees of scale and immediacy. A merchant prince or a banker or a wealthy landowner isn’t generally required to take responsibility for the people he cheats, screws and starves; society couldn’t function if that were the case.