Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?

It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.

For, "Yes," he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.

I am the King's Fool. He is the King-In-Wating. Let him wait.

It was hard to reconcile the drumbeats and lifted voices in the night with my memories of flames and the screams of dying men. How could humanity range so effortlessly from the sublime to the savage and back again?

History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then, stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things. Then you will find the Now, the time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is.