“ 'Do not ask what brings Dante to man but what brings man to Dante-to personally enter his sphere, though it is forever severe and unforgiving.' ”
“Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another.”
“To bring order into this jangled sphere man must find its centre" Marshall McLuhan”
“You would quit the Order for her? Niko asked, the youngest only behind Dante, and a warrior who relished his duty perhaps even more than Dante had himself. I would quit breathing for her, if she asked it of me.”
“For the first time in his life he understood why the Bible called sex "knowing". Everything was different. Now he knew Dante. He'd known Dante. And wonder of wonders, Dante had known him right back.”
“Your smile is back.' That's what Dante said.'Smiles are like that. They come and go.”