Robert Jordan
Robert Jordan
James Oliver Rigney, Jr., better known by his pen name Robert Jordan, was an American author of epic fantasy. He is best known for the Wheel of Time series, which comprises 14 books and a prequel novel. He is one of the several writers who have written seven original Conan the Barbarian novels that are highly acclaimed to this day. Rigney also wrote historical fiction under his pseudonym Reagan O'Neal, a western as Jackson O'Reilly, and dance criticism as Chang...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 October 1948
CityCharleston, SC
CountryUnited States of America
The leaf lives its appointed time, and does not struggle against the wind that carries it away. The leaf does no harm, and finally falls to nourish new leaves. So it should be with all men and women.
Kill a man who needs killing, and sometimes others pay for it. The question is, was it worth doing it anyway? There's always a balance, you know. Good and evil. Light and Shadow. We would not be human if there wasn't a balance.
Never think I have abandoned you. When the sun shines on you, it is my smile. When you hear the breeze stir through the apple blossoms, it is my whisper that I love you. My love is yours forever.
The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man's life turn alike without pity or mercy.
When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back.
Caution once forgotten could be forgotten once too often.
It was easier to be brave when someone needed your protection.
A weeping woman is a bucket with no bottom.
A man is a man, on a throne or in a pigsty.
At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying.
A shoat squealing under a fence just attracts the fox, when it should be trying to run.
Men always believe they are in control of everything around them. When they find out they are not, they think they have failed, instead of learning a simple truth women already know.
I can rest when I'm dead.
The only way to live is to die. I must die. I deserve only death.