Sometimes the Nonman would climb upon some wild pulpit, the mossed remains of a fallen tree, the humped back of a boulder, and paint wonders with his dark voice. Wonders and horrors both.

Gods are but greater demons, the Cishaurim said, hungers across the surface of eternity, wanting only to taste the clarity of our souls. Can you not see this?

To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife.

Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.

A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number who obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity.

Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing.

The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.