We can only escape the bloody and ignorant nightmare of history by exploring alternatives which today look frighteningly weird.

We can only escape the bloody and ignorant nightmare of history by exploring alternatives which today look frighteningly weird.

Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.

If only one fifth of your spells work you have real power. If only one fifth of your divinations work you have a serious disability.

Laughter is the only tenable attitude in a universe which is a joke played on itself.

So many people seem to spend their lives trying to appear normal, predictable and consistent to themselves and those that surround them. They just end up bored with themselves, bereft of any depth of inner resources, suffocated by the inhibitions that defend their own monolithic identities.

Chaos, the life force of the universe, is not human-hearted. Therefore the wizard cannot be human-hearted when he seeks to tap the force of the universe. He performs monstrous and arbitrary acts to loosen the hold of human limitations upon himself.