Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful

If the people at the top think that reaching for a gun will solve the problem, why shouldn't the people at the bottom think the same?

What the local politicians actually meant was that they hoped to claim the land in the name of the public and then make the usual profits privatizing it. There was a principle at stake. They had to ensure their friends and not outsiders got the benefit.

And now, Elric had told three lies. The first concerned his cousin Yyrkoon. The second concerned the Black Sword. The third concerned Cymoril. And upon those three lies was Elric's destiny to be built, for it is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.

Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage?

It's getting late. I must return to my ship or my men will think I've drowned and be celebrating.

Doomed Lord's Passing. For the mind of man alone is free to explore the lofty vastness of the cosmic infinite, to transcend ordinary consciousness, to roam the secret corridors of the brain where past and future melt into one...And universe and individual are linked, the one mirrored in the other, and each contains the other.