“I am the King's Fool. He is the King-In-Wating. Let him wait.”
“I was a king and a king's heir and now I am a slave.”
“I am the King. I tell. I am not told. I am the verb, sir. I am not the object. (King George III)”
“Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the greater king, I am the elder-born, I claim—the greater man.”
“And Adam ruled, for he was the King. Until the day his will to be King deserted him. Then he died, food for a stronger. And the strongest was always the King, not by strength alone, but King by cunning and luck and strength together. Among the rats.”
“And any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all.”