“Remember that when you think you are seeing giants, they may not be giants at all; perhaps it is you who is the dwarf.”

“All dwarfs have beards and wear up to twelve layers of clothing. Gender is more or less optional.”

“What sort of gods make rats and plagues and dwarfs?”

“Sibyl, what do you want?I want to live, the Sibyl said, and her voice rang rich and full. I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world a...”

“When God is driven to the periphery of the public square, the human spiritual capacity longs for exercise, and it often finds it in the suspension of disbelief and activity of the imagination that ...”

“When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.”