Well... I can't say for sure why you're here, but since you are...

I won't tell you my personal details, or give you any websites; it makes it harder for the government to track me that way.

I have a few works posted on FictionPress; most of my stuff is independent anyway.

I will say that I have many different "favorite" books, and I will list the series by author here:

-- Terry Brooks: The Word and the Void, The Genesis of Shannara, The First King of Shannara, The Original Shannara Trilogy, The Heritage of Shannara, The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara, The High Druid of Shannara

-- David Eddings: The Belgariad, The Malloreon, Belgarath the Sorcerer, The Elenium, The Tamuli

-- Brian Jacques: All the Redwall books

-- Karen Hancock: Legends of the Guardian-King

-- Donita K. Paul: Dragon Keepers

-- L. B. Graham: The Binding of the Blade

-- J. R. R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings legendarium

-- Naomi Novik: Temeraire

-- Lloyd Alexander: The Chronicles of Prydain

-- The Star Wars movie novels (by assorted authors)

I'm sure that I'm forgetting some, but I'll update if I think of any more...

I also greatly enjoy the BioWare game Dragon Age: Origins...

Some of my favorite quotations are here (there are just a few...):

"Life makes itself interesting. I'm just along for the ride." -Tay Trefenwyd

"Until the future becomes the present, it is only a distraction." -Qui-Gon Jinn to Obi-Wan Kenobi

"Who is more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?" -Obi-Wan Kenobi to Han Solo

"Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try." -Yoda "None of the stories people tell about me can change who I really am." -Luke Skywalker

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." -Walker Boh

"The impossible is only the untried." -Morgan Leah to Matty Roh

"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens." -Gimli to Aragorn

"Courage is found in unlikely places." -Gildor Inglorion

"There is always hope." -Aragorn to Haleth

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." -Gandalf to Frodo Baggins

"There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for." -Samwise Gamgee to Frodo Baggins

"Where there's life, there's hope, Mr. Frodo." -Samwise Gamgee to Frodo Baggins

"Always remember, your focus determines your reality." -Qui-Gon Jinn to Obi-Wan Kenobi

"In a rainstorm, you try to keep dry by hurrying for shelter. But you get soaked regardless." -Qui-Gon Jinn

"Content? No, Walker. You will never be content until you learn to quit fighting yourself." -Cogline to Walker Boh

"Everyone respects what they fear, and they can't help but look up to us when we always look down on them." -Kualus to Takanuva

"Every man dies. Not every man truly lives." -William Wallace, "Braveheart"

"A coward dies a thousand times, but a warrior dies only once." -Luke the Warrior

"We know what it's like to live as a slave under tyranny. It's not life- it's living death!" -Keyla

"We should not be less than what we are." -Tay Trefenwyd

"They say your life flashes in front of your eyes before you die. Any helpful flashes yet?" -Garrett Hawke

"If I were indeed hostile, you would be bleeding." -Sten

"Either you have an enviable memory or a pitiable life, to know nothing of regret." -Sten

"To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing." -Unknown

"You know, you are just too understanding about stuff like this. Can’t you be more judgmental? I’m trying to rant, here." --Alistair

"As soon as a friendship passes a certain point--some obscure and secret boundary--a woman quite automatically becomes overwhelmed by a raging compulsion to complicate things." -Garion

"What we have in life that we can count our own is who we are and where we come from. For better or worse, that's what we have to sustain us in our endeavors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without these things, we are adrift." -Taran

"We are not always properly equipped to face the difficulties life places in our path." -Allanon

"Don't doubt the truth. Truth is hard to find; don't cast it away when you find it." -Traunt Rowan

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve!" -Bilbo Baggins

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain." -Unknown

"If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him." -Thomas Fuller

"Truth is the only safe ground to stand on." -Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior." -Sir Francis Bacon

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." -Sir Winston Churchill

"There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness." -Josh Billings

"We are all fools for most of our lives. It's unavoidable." -Jean Valjean

"Apologies without change are useless." -Rulalin Tarasir

"The downfall of the victor is that he lets the victory go to his head." -Abramm Kalladorne

"He who rises to the bait of a fool is himself twice the fool." -Aljeron Balinor

"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid." - Epictitus

(Takes sip of coffee) "Yuck!" (Takes another sip) "YUCK!!!! Ooohhhh it's terrible and wonderful at the same time! It's like freedom in a cup!" -Elliott, Open Season

"Better is a field well plowed than a field soaked in blood." -Adaon

"Any human being is capable of doing what other human beings have done." -Oswald Chambers

"We cannot pretend that the world begins and ends at the boundaries we might make for it. Sometimes, we must acknowledge that it extends itself into our lives in ways we might prefer it wouldn't, and we must face up to the challenges it offers." -Walker Boh

"How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end its only a passing thing, a shadow; even darkness must pass. A new day will come, and when the sun shines it'll shine out the clearer." -Samwise Gamgee to Frodo Baggins

(I wrote this quote, and I'm actually rather proud of it. It's in Fortress of the East on FictionPress.) "It is better to enjoy life for the memory of those dead than weep for them and not enjoy life at all." -Tarn Jubewesk to Sederan Dict

...Like I said, just a few quotes.