Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that meaning is an act. We must repossess it, instant to instant in our lives.

Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.

I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes

At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap, grumbled at the cold and the earliness of the hour, and cursed the flint hearts of city girls.

Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that meaning is an act. We must repossess it, instant to instant in our lives.

Everyone loves a mysterious country.

Manufacture dooms in your head and you will go mad. Reality is incontravertible. Also, it will not be anticipated.