Where do you get dreams like this?

We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition.

There is no life which does not possess its own importance, no life which may not be touched by greatness at any time -- Yes, be touched by greatness and have a hand in it. (from The Mirror of Her Dreams)

He who waits for the sword to fall upon his neck will surely lose his head.

I had no intention of pursuing either the characters or the setting further.

Any belief that puts itself beyond doubt nurtures its own collapse.

However you look at it, in these books "power" tends to be an expression of the essential nature of the person or being whose power it is. On those occasions when we've seen Lord Foul act directly, he seems to exert the withering force of pure scorn. IMHO, that's pretty intense.