The man called himself a wizard, but Corum would have called him a philosopher, someone who enjoyed exploring and discovering the secrets of nature. - Michael Moorcock

Perhaps I should not say so, but it occasionally crosses my mind to wonder why, in all the mystic cosmologies, even in some of the modern so-called parasciences, our own age is always described as the age of chaos and contention. A comment, my logical side argues, on why people turn to mysticism. The past age was always better."
"Childhood is the happiest time of life except when you're a child," said Jerry.
"I understand you. True.

Is there anything sadder, I wonder, than an assassin with nobody left to kill?

Like most fanatics," I pointed out coolly, "you share at least one characteristic with children—you want everything now. All improvements take time. You cannot make the world perfect overnight. Things are considerably better for more people today than they were in my—in the early years of this century, for instance.