Is is seldom possible to say of the medievals that they *always* did one thing and *never* another; they were marvelously inconsistent.

If there are no books. There is no civilization.

The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters

How real is history? Is it just an enormous soup so full of disparate ingredients that it is uncharacterizable?

(The festival) was awfully impersonal and abstract and there was something really gloomy about it. That's when I first started thinking about the typical view of reality.

We need not fear God as we fear all other suffering, which burns and maims and kills. For God's fire, though it will perfect us, will not destroy, for 'the bush was not consumed.

I don't desire to be intelligent, but I do desire to be loving and kind.

This was it, he knew it, was sure of it, this was the door which would take him back—

The analogy I like is this imagine being able to see the world but you are deaf, and then suddenly someone gives you the ability to hear things as well - you get an extra dimension of perception.

Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.

She also said she would give him a kiss if he liked, but Peter did not know what she meant, and he held out his hand expectantly.

When he bowed to all those buddhas, the buddhas he bowed to were beyond his own understanding. Again and again he did it.

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

If a double-decker bus Crashes into us To die by your side... The pleasure - the privilege is mine.

Granny Weatherwax was not a good loser. From her point of view, losing was something that happened to other people.

Mature? Yeah, I get told that a lot. I don't know if it's true. I guess I try to be bright.