“Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.”

“Walk any path in Destiny's garden, and you will be forced to choose, not once but many times.”

“It was the size of an ox, of a bull elephant, of a lifetime. It stared at them, and it paused for a hundred years, which transpired in a dozen heartbeats.”

“We...we could be friends.'We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not.”

“When things go wrong, this is what you should do. Make good art.”

“Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.”

“You are obvious, boy. You are difficult to miss. If you came to me in company with a purple lion, a green elephant, and a scarlet unicorn astride which was the King of England in his Royal Robes, I do believe that it is you and you alone that people would stare at, dismissing the others as minor irrelevancies.”