Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.

It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?

I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.

People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.