“And, before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything.”

“This was the kind of job that made legends out of hunters. Of course, to be a legend, you generally had to be dead.”

“No one understood what his legend had cost him.”

“Scheherazade had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of bygone men and things; indeed it was said that she had collected a thousand books of histories relating to antique races and departed rulers. She had perused the works of the poets and knew them by heart; she had studied philosophy and the sciences, arts and accomplishments; and she was pleasant and polite, wise and witty, well read and well bred.”

“From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.”

“Those on Whom Legends Are Built Are Their Legends”