Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend?

The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit.

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

It is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.

It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.

Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of course, in peace there was danger. Being an imperfect creature in an imperfect world he would always know paradox. And that was why in paradox there was always a kind of truth. That was why philosophers and soothsayers flourished. In a perfect world there would be no place for them. In an imperfect world the mysteries were always without solution and that was why there was always a great choice of solutions.

All Empires fall, All ages die, All strife shall be in vain. All Kings go down, All hope must fail, But Tanelorn remains Our Tanelorn remains.