"Oh, cynical monger of indulgences! ’Twould take a man of the cloth to work a scheme like that!"

"Then I could turn around and justify that, by saying that it isn’t really paranoia if there really are people out to …"

"“It is difficult to understand. It seems brutal, it seems harsh…” “It is life and it is death. It is the greatest ble…"

"This day she’ll off across the sky on her own wild ways to show.… There, in the worlds of the Life and the Death, the…"

"“Silence, Set!” cries Anubis. “Don’t listen to him, Madrak. He sees your weakness, as he sees the weaknesses of all t…"

"This added the element of mystery that made the comparison inevitable: life is a thing that reminds me quite a bit of…"

"My mind spun for a second before it drifted, and in that second I knew that of all pleasures—a drink of cold water wh…"

"“Some worlds have too much life,“ he says. “Life—crawling, pullulating, fecundating, smothering itself—worlds too cle…"

"Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that you be forgiv…"

"Symbols, by their very nature, conceal as well as indicate, damn them!"