"Could Rievor be hiding himself behind some magical cloak?" I asked my other self. "No," he said. "I believe he is exercising that most potent form o… - Matt Hughes

"I do not wish to experience that again."
"Some people claim that the occasional exposure to fear enhances their enjoyment of more tranquil circumstances."
"Some people ought to be confined for their own good," my assistant said, "and to prevent them from spreading dangerous inanities."

It is as hugely irrelevant to us as the literary outpourings of a poet are to a bacterium living in his lower bowel. Indeed, to an even tinier mite living in the bacterium’s vacuole. It just doesn’t matter.

Gathering himself together, he asked the dwarf, “Was all this in some way planned and predetermined?”
Gaskarth turned upon the young man a thoughtful gaze. “There are those who say that all is planned, to the placement of the last mote and mite. There are others who say that nothing is purposed, and that the galaxies themselves swing where they will. And then there are some, like me, who prefer to walk on, saying as little as possible.”