I can't make sense out of that girl," he said to the bard, "Can you?" "Never mind," Fflewddur said, "We aren't really expected to.

-"He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful." -"It was stupid.

The journey is the treasure.

True allegiance is only given willingly.

If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.