I listened to all this with the dull incomprehension of a pig in the slaughterhouse overhearing the talk of two butchers. - Darrell Schweitzer

One more thing I will tell you, the great secret I learned through my experience."
"What was that?"
"Never listen to idle tales. They make you mad and lead you through the bowels of a god."
"Of course," said one of the disciples after he had left, "it is the nature of the madness that one never heeds these warnings.

I lost my faith on a foreign shore, in the shade of the conscience tree. In the shade of the conscience tree, on a foreign shore, where the sand ran wet with the blood of children.

Men called me a philosopher once, but as the years burdened me further I cared less and less for the pressing questions of astronomy and geomancy and metaphysics and the like. They had been pressing since long before I was born, and I knew they would continue to be so as long as there were two students left to argue over the difference between the real and the ideal.