To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.

Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.

Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.

If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book.

What's needed in this case is conscious and serious practice in hearing, and using, and being used by, other people's voices.

The living tongue that tells the word, the living ear that hears it, bind and bond us in the communion we long for in the silence of our inner solitude.

The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?