“Hero, he said softly, in a manner that was much like his fathers. Vengeance and glory are the ways of the Greeks and the Trojans. We are of the Herdsmen.”

“It is not easy to soothe the immortal gods from their vengeance.”

“You know, Mac,Cadmus said still looking out the window. We may have to work on the way we tell our story apparently its not amusing enough. Ill try to include a joke between he bled to deathand the...”

“The sadness of death lies in the fact that it cannot be reversed. Cherish the world of the living whilst you have it, for you cannot visit there again.”

“He has been known to devour men. Hes a cannibal? Cadmus asked in horror. Well, not really, Daemon replied. He is a Cyclops. He does not eat his own kind just men and only those who challenge him ...”

“You know, Mac,”Cadmus said still looking out the window. “We may have to work on the way we tell our story …apparently it’s not amusing enough.” “I’ll try to include a joke between ‘he bled to deat...”

“Um, thanks, Jackson told her. And your name is?Im Margaret, Margaret Van Der Graaf, she answered with another eerie smile. Her teeth were so white that they looked bleached.Van Der Graaf? Jackson r...”

“Oh, Major, you do so love to annoy, don't you?""It is the stuff of living, my lady.”

“It was going to be our job to annoy someone? I knowits a dream come true!”

“The sight of a worm excites my reverence more than all the gods men have invented.”

“For the natural polytheist, whose gods arise in and from the natural material world ... Our gods not only have transcendent eyes and metaphysical hands. They have antlers and feathers, hooves and s...”

“I sing to you of many more gods, gods of wind and water, gods of each mineral and the events that created them. I sing to you of the gods of protons, of quarks, of atomic forces binding and holding...”

“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”

“Call no man happy until he is dead.”

“It is not easy to soothe the immortal gods from their vengeance.”