- and you are truly human now. You can love, and fear, and forbid things to be what they are, and overact.

If a man loved me, I would have talked myself into loving him, and I would have loved him very deeply after a while.

You have to be very deep to be dead, he thought, and I'm not. He began to have some concept of forever, and his mind shivered as his body had when he had wakened in the cold nights and thrust his hands between his thighs to keep warm. It will be a long night, he thought.

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

..no meal is good enough to justify all the money and effort wasted in preparing it. It is an illusion and an expense. Live as I do, undeceived.

Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.

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.