Any man would be forsworn to gain a kingdom.

The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

I have decided, it is fruitless. For I am no longer sure of anything concerning my existance. A philosopher is a dead poet and a dying theologian.

Good evening, Lord Corwin,' said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it. Good evening, Roger. How are things in the nether world?' A rat, a bat, a spider. Nothing much else astir. Peaceful.' You enjoy this duty?' He nodded. I am writing a philosophical romance shot through with elements of horror and morbidity. I work on those parts down here.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.