“When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.”

“You leap too quickly to his defense. It reveals his true attitude, of which he has doubtless made you aware.”

“I walked among Shadows, and found a race of furry creatures, dark and clawed and fanged, reasonably manlike, and about as intelligent as a freshman in the high school of your choice-sorry, kids, but what I mean is they were loyal, devoted, honest, and too easily screwed by bastards like me and my brother. I felt like the dee-jay of your choice.”

“But I recall the springtime of the world as though it were yesterday—those days when we rode together to battle, and those nights when we shook the stars loose from the fresh-painted skies!”

“I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call.”

“When I said I wanted to die in my sleep, I meant I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.”

“Suchtimes are rare, such times are fleeting, but always bright when caught, measured, hung, and later regardedin times of adversity, there in the kinder halls of memory, against the flapping of the flames.”