“Every place is different, but every place is the same, because you carry yourself with you wherever you go.”

“People take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that.”

“Every atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time.”

“Now, I pray you, cast yourself into a different world, a different trail of thought; step into a place where dragons live and breathe, where they are as real in touch and voice as you or I. Where they face the same extinction every day that they have suffered in our world: the extinction of myth . . . yet where they battle every moment to fend off such a fate for another day . . .”

“Any friendship that is worth its weight is like a dark and secret place where you hide bits of yourself. The door can be opened only by the two people who have the key, and you carry it with you wherever you go. Magnify that by a billion, and you begin to get an idea of what marriage is like.”

“I like it more to come to a place like this, where the scent of deathis carried to you on every seventh breath.”