"I am not clever—I am too strong for cleverness, as you well understand."

"[T]he very existence of such powers argues a counterforce. We call powers of the first kind dark, though they may use…"

"Just as the room of the Inquisitor in Dr. Talos's play, with its high judicial bench, lurked somewhere at the lowest …"

"That was the brightest day I've ever seen. The sun had new life in him, the way a man will when he was sick yesterday…"

"An angel is often only a demon who stands between us and our enemy."

"The progress of science depends much less upon theoretical considerations or systematic investigation than is commonl…"

"The brown book I carry says there is nothing stranger than to explore a city wholly different from all those one know…"

"I found I could not say what it was I understood; that it was in fact on the level of meaning above language, a level…"

"How strange it is that the sky, which by day is a stationary ground on which the clouds are seen to move, by night be…"

"I realized that what disturbed me was the memory of the lies I had told the magicians, pretending, as they did, to co…"