No one person has the right to withhold knowledge from another. No one is wise enough. - Stephen R. Donaldson

That was a joke. Or a metaphor." Covenant made another effort to turn his sarcasm into humor. "I can never tell the difference.

You know, where I come from, the people who did this to a forest would be called pioneers—a very special breed of heroes, since instead of killing other human beings they concentrate on slaughtering nature itself.

The bluff stone of the tower, with Revelstone rising behind it like the prow of a great ship, answered his gaze in granite permanence as if it were a prophecy by the old Giants—a cryptic perception that victory and defeat were human terms which had no meaning in the language of mountains.