“Knowledge is power, wisdom is power with a purpose.”

“Take them and claim their deaths as your reclamation to life.”

“In any perfect relationship men should remember it's a matter of direction; she takes what's right and you take what's left.”

“Just before I look under my bed, I always get a little cold feeling, as if part of me expects to find something staring back at me.I've probably seen too many Hollywood movies to have any hopes of ever cultivating a healthy relationship with the underside of my bed.”

“See that day as I remember it. A day in June, River Severn rolling to the sea, diamonded with sunlight, gulls gliding over the quays on a mild breeze that lifted the Red Dragon standard over Camelot. A quiet enough day for the end of my world.”

“Between blow and pain, there is that instant of numbness, an unreal moment...”

“The day comes when love means something beyond a reflection of ourselves, when there is more behind than ahead and the house of mind is haunted in every chamber with old songs, old ghosts, old hopes.”