"I don't know the sensible plant," said Cat wonderingly. "Where may it be found?" "It cannot be found," the Gardener replied. "It is extinct." - Sheri S. Tepper

Theoretical liberties, however, we are too often assured at the expense of actual civilities, and as civilities were lost, litigation emerged as a way of life with a consequent reduction in real liberties for all persons except lawyers, who, like mercenaries, are profiteers of discord. Persons were actually allowed, by law, under the guise of free expression, to shout into the faces of those who held differing opinions and to intrude upon their privacy. Liberty has two legs. Vigilance is certainly one, but civility is as certainly the other.

Mother, though of Gamesman caste, seemed to have no Talent of any kind. She was so beautiful she did not need to be anything else.

That is the god of jihad," she said. "That is the god of crusades. They are identical except for their names.