When we have done more traveling together, you will come to see that occasionally we must be other than forthright with local authorities. Many of th… - Matt Hughes

"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 of invisibility: the one called, 'not being present at all.'"

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.

A lifelong habit of being right also had the effect of diminishing one’s social appeal, especially among those who prefer to keep the bubble of their various illusions a safe distance from a needle-sharp and probing intelligence.