By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them we should undoubtedly go mad.

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.

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?

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.

I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.

Everything means nothing that is the only truth.