Your quest is for darkness only. This sea is not your sea. The myths of men are not your myths. Men's treasures are not yours.

To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost." So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions." An absence of need for illusions," he said. "A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes.

Everyone is a potential naked slave to you once you become a trainer.

I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here.

That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra.

We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job.

But I still did not realize how mad she was, and how accustomed to dreaming; and that she would not cry out for reality, rather would feed reality to her dreams, a demon elf feeding her spinning wheel with the reeds of the world so she might make her own weblike universe.