He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.' Gothos' Folly

And over it all, the butterflies swarmed, like a million yellow-pettalled flowers dancing on swirling winds.

The notion of evil for its own sake strikes me as boring -- all these Dark Lords intent on creating wastelands packed with enslaved victims... for what?

I hear Seven Cities natives grow fruit just so they can eat the larvae in them.

For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.

It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand.

Desires should never be justified,' Tehol said, wagging a finger. 'All you end up doing is illuminating the hidden reasons by virtue of their obvious absence.