“But it is. Its something you need, and thats a long way from nothing. If you need it, Eddie, we need it. What we dont need is a man who cant let go of the useless baggage of his memories.”

“You haven't finished the key, but not because you are afraid to finish. You're afraid of finding you can't finish. You're afraid to go down to where the stones stand, but not because you're afraid ...”

“He felt like a compass needle. The needle knows nothing about magnetic north; it only knows it must point in a certain direction, like it or not.”

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

“To do otherwise with a 'prentice was to ask for a second, less playful bite. And who would be to blame for that? Who but the teacher? For was he not training her to bite? Training both of them to b...”

“What weve got here is a lunatic genius ghost-in-the-computer monorail that likes riddles and goes faster than the speed of sound. Welcome to the fantasy version of One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest.”

“Life is all about practicing for heaven." p 101.”

“The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.”

“You are never too old to become younger!”

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”