God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.

From the solitude of the wood, (Man) has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.

It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness.

It has been asserted that we are destined to know the dark beyond the stars before we comprehend the nature of our own journey.

To have dragons one must have change; that is the first principle of dragon lore.

I am what I am and cannot be otherwise because of the shadows.

I once saw, on a flower pot in my own living room, the efforts of a field mouse to build a remembered field. I have lived to see this episode repeated in a thousand guises, and since I have spent a large portion of my life in the shade of a nonexistent tree I think I am entitled to speak for the field mouse.