“because in the past words have only driven them apart.”

“This was weird. The thing that could have driven two friends instantly apart was actually drawing them closer together.”

“Lancelot tried to have a Word. His Word was valuable to him not only because he was good, but also because he was bad. It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them.”

“The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.”

“It is no coincidence that the words 'trying' and 'dying' are only a few letters apart.”

“Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.”