“A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.”

“He was no dragon, Dany thought, curiously calm. Fire cannot kill a dragon”

“You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it.”

“The poor dragon is trapped, alone and cold; He cannot leap out of the depths; He cannot rise to the heavens; He cannot even descend onto fields. The poor dragon fell into the deep well; Even catfish dance before him; He hides his teeth and claws and sighs; And I am this depressed as well?”

“I cannot help that readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief.”

“Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is.”