“Words are so easily spoken, as you’ve proven", the Deity had continued, "but so rarely are they backed up with action”

“I want you to think about this for a minute. What would you rather have? Words that can be spoken lightly and then taken back so easily, would you rather actions?”

“Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], so long as we fail to find, beneath the chatter of words, the primordial silence, and as long as we do not describe the action which breaks this silence. the spoken word is a gesture, and its meaning, a world.”

“As one does a bear riding a bicycle. One sees it so rarely.(Spoken by Volger, on Deryn)”

“I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.”

“But how much more pleasant was the sensation of being a missile without provenance or target, caught up in a tumult of non-Newtonian motion. So pleasant that pleasant was not the word.”