Then you will have to trust me. Beyond logic, beyond reason, beyond hope, trust me.

Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.

I don't teach lies, but I do not teach all I know is true.

Night is not something to endure until dawn. It is an element, like wind or fire. Darkness is its own kingdom; it moves to its own laws, and many living things dwell in it.

I would be mute, beautiful, changless as the earth for you. I would be your memory, without age, always innocent, always waiting in the King's white house. I would do that for you and no other man inthe relm. But it would be a lie and I will do anything but lie to you - I swear that.

I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my imagination. Daydreaming. Thinking up imaginary people, impossible places.

That's the beginning of magic. Let your imagination run and follow it.