He felt as if he were paying for the privilege of music with portions of his life and body. But it was well worth it.

Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.

It's very painful to be in debt. I'm the kind of person who would rather almost die than go into debt.

For what can be imagined more beautiful than the sight of a perfectly just city rejoicing in justice alone.

their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals.

...I returned to walking up the mountain, and there, in the dim asexual beauty of reddening dawns and skies that firmed to blue, I discovered my real and appropriate strengths.

They're not just dreams. Not anymore, I dream more than I wake now, and, at times, I have crossed over. Can't you see? I've been there.