These old knights are more cunning than you think, or they would never have lived to see their first grey hair.

If H. P. Lovecraft and H. L. Mencken had ever collaborated, they might have come up with something like The Edge of Reason. This one will delight thinkers-and outrage true believers-of all stripes.

Why should death make a man truthful, or even clever? The dead are likely dull fellows, full of tedious complaints - the ground's too cold, my gravestone should be larger, why does he get more worms than I do.

And I tell you truly, Danaerys, there is no man in all the world who will ever be half so true to you as me.

When the end comes, I will meet it raging.

Black moleskin gloves covered his hands; the right because it was burned, the left because a man felt half a fool wearing only one glove.

Mothers." The man made a word sound like a curse. "I think birthing does something to your minds. You are all mad.