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

What if I am, in some way, only a sophisticated fire that has acquired an ability to regulate its rate of combustion and to hoard its fuel in order to see and walk?

A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other men call trifles. It is possible to refine the sense of time until an old shoe in the bunch grass or a pile of nineteenth century beer bottles in an abandoned mining town tolls in one's head like a hall clock.

Primitives of our own species, even today are historically shallow in their knowledge of the past. Only the poet who writes speaks his message across the millennia to other hearts.

I am not nearly so interested in what monkey man was derived from as I am in what kind of monkey he is to become.

Every man contains within himself a ghost continent.

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