And you, Prince Elric? She attracted the albino's wandering attention. Do you know his story? Elric shook his head. I only know, he said, that he is a shape-changer and, that most cursed of souls, a person of rare goodness and sanity. Imagine such torment as is his!

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

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

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

Here, I thought, I had found the human race in its final stages of decadence perverse, insouciant, without ambition. And I could not blame them. After all, they had no future.

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

I know not which I prefer the look of—those who attack us or that which defends us!