"With any luck, they'd have best of both worlds. Not just feeling...but knowing."

"In the village in the Ramtops where they understand what the Morris dance is all about, they dance it just once, at d…"

"He lay back and smiled. It was never too late to have a good life. (p. 311)"

"In the Ramtop village where they dance the real Morris dance, for example, they believe that no one is finally dead u…"

"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness …"

"Death said nothing. He helped her up onto the horse."

"No naked little men sat on the summit dispensing wisdom, because the first thing the truly wise man works out is that…"

"What's the good of having mastery over cosmic balance and knowing the secrets of fate if you can't blow something up?…"

"Mothers like her exist everywhere, and apparently nothing can be done about them. (p. 313)"

"The Archchancellor was the first one to recover."