“No paradise is ever without its Serpent, nor any Eden its exiles.”

“Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.”

“And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless.”

“Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire.”

“A fluid choice, the choice of fantasy, is poured out on the ground and instantly hardens; it has taken its undeniable shape.”

“There's ten thousand wyes a hen can get into a gairden, but only the wan wye she can get oot, and it's gey ill for her to find it.”

“Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry?”