I am the dragon, and you call me insane.

Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.

I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.

It's hard... to shake off something that's already under your skin.

Before Me you are a slug in the sun. You are privy to a great Becoming and you recognize nothing. You are an ant in the after-birth.It is in your nature to do one thing correctly: before Me you rightly tremble. Fear is not what you owe Me, Lounds, you and the other pismires. You owe Me awe.

When Will Graham could open his right eye, he saw the clock and knew where he was- an intensive-care unit. He knew to watch the clock. Its movement assured him that this was passing, would pass. That's what it was there for.