You prefer not to see the gears of the clock, as to better tell time.

Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon . . . is not the dragon the hero of his own story?

Wine is bottled poetry, he thinks.

I don;t think there's anything wrong with being a dreamer. There is not. But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.

Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.

I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held.

Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.