I understand so very little. But I am not afraid to look: I am a good observer at last. My eyes are open, and I am not afraid.

We'll do what life always does defy expectations.

Ah, books." Ziegler, smiling, came up behind me. "They bob like corks on an ocean. Float between worlds, messages in bottles.

The Mysteries are the Mysteries, and ultimately personal maybe the most personal thing in the universe. Evangelism, in my opinion, is a failure of the imagination. Beware of prophets: the best visions are the ones they leave in the desert.

There's no drug that'll make a stupid man smart.

When does loyalty become martyrdom?

This would have been less annoying had it been untrue.