“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”

“It is very seldom,” the young man said at last, “that dragons ask to do men favours.”“But it is very common,” said the dragon, “for cats to play with mice before they kill them.”

“The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.”

“But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.”

“I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.”

“We men dream dreams, we work magic, we do good, we do evil. The dragons do not dream. They are dreams. They do not work magic: it is their substance, their being. They do not do; they are.”

“And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet I would remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.”