Farewell,' she said. 'I hope you hear many more songs' - which was the best way she could think of to say good-bye to a butterfly.

Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts.

But I still feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, 'alright sucker, now what?'

My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known.

A Clock is not time; it's numbers and springs. Pay it no mind.

He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them a place to live, a green alternative to each day's madness here in a poisoned world. We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous.