“Blasted doorknob of a kender”
“No, as I've discovered, hate generally costs a man more than he can afford.”
“A 'why' is a dangerous thing... It challenges old, comfortable ways, forces people to think about that they do instead of just mindlessly doing it. (Haplo)...I think the danger is not so much in asking the 'why' as in believing you have come up with the only answer. (Alfred)”
“A man with nothing to die for has even less for which to live.”
“Now there was nothing but awful, terrible silence. Sight is a sense outside and apart from the body, an image on the surface of the eye. But sound enters the ears, the head, it lives inside. In sound's absence, silence echoes.”
“Limbeck, the august leader of WUPP, did not mind the noise. He took comfort in it, havinglistened to it, albeit somewhat muffled, in his mother's womb. The Gegs revered the noise, just asthey revered the Kicksey-Winsey. They knew that if the noise ceased their world would come toan end. Death was known among the Gegs as the Endless Hear Nothing.”