In accepting a gift you honor the giver. - Stephen R. Donaldson

The answer to death was to make use of it rather than fall victim to it—master it by making it serve his goals, beliefs. This was not a good answer. But it was the only answer he had.

Don’t talk like a damned mystic. Say something I can understand.

I'll tell you what it is. It's a goddam miracle, that's what it is."
"Come, now," the older man murmured. "I don't believe in miracles—neither do you.