Perhaps coming from the royal family, I had easier emotional access to a sense of Toromon’s history. Even at its best, that’s all an aristocracy is g… - Samuel R. Delany

We're not going to climb that in the dark, are we?" asked Iimmi.
"Better than in the light," said Urson. "This way you can't see how far you have to fall.

Imagination should be used for something other than pondering murder, don’t you think?

And of course that is the problem with all truly powerful ideas. And what we have been talking of is certainly that. What it produces is illuminated by it. But applied where it does not pertain, it produces distortions as terrifying as the idea was powerful.