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

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

"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…"

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

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

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

"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…"

"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…"

"I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he mig…"