“For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel, half beast, but no man...Some day a man will walk into my office as a ghost or beast or ghost-beast and walk out as a man, which is to say sovereign wanderer, lordly exile, worker and waiter and watcher.”
“Half-man, half-beast, all nightmare. The shapeshifter warrior form.”
“Man is neither angel nor beast, and unhappily whoever wants to act the angel, acts the beast.”
“Man differs more from man than man from beast”
“Beast?" Jane murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours.”
“There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.”