“There's nothing like a headless corpse to bring a touch of excitement into one's life.”

“...they say [Finn] has tasted the Nuts of Wisdom." Elatha laughed. "Perhaps the Nuts of Wisdom will gird him against your sister.”

“If we go on in this way, we shall have a new art of poetry, of which one of the first rules will be: To remember to forget that there are any such things as sunshine and music in the world.”

“Ever Tried. Ever Failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”

“Something is reflecting our thoughts back to us in obvious and not so obvious ways.”

“The wonderful world!”

“But just because you bury something, that doesnt mean it stops existing.”

“What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie?I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky.The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing;R...”