"In a sense the clock was the entire Mynster, and its basement. When most people spoke of “the clock,” though, they me…"

"“Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have…"

"They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they wer…"

""Ylma is having you work it out in the most gruesome way possible...so that when she teaches you how it's really done…"

"I went to Saunt Grod’s chalk hall and took a seat in the large empty space that, as usual, surrounded Barb. There was…"

"Barb wanted only to understand this one problem or equation chalked on the slate before him now, today, whether or no…"

"Describe worrying," he went on. "What!?" "Pretend I'm someone who has never worried. I'm mystified. It don't get it. …"

"There’s no way to get from the point in Hemn space where we are now, to one that includes pink nerve-gas-farting drag…"

"I guess that people like to think they are not only living but propagating their way of life." "That's right. People …"

"“Do your neighbors burn one another alive?” was how Fraa Orolo began his conversation with Artisan Flec. “Do your sha…"