"The sentiment may perceive and love the universe, but the universe cannot perceive and love the sentiment. The universe sees no distinction between the multitude of creatures and elements which compri..."
- Michael Moorcock
"When gods die, self-respect buds', murmured Orland Fank. 'Gods and their examples are not needed by those who respect themselves and, consequently, respect others. Gods are for children, for little, f..."
"You Mabden seem to think that happiness must be bought with misery... It is not easy for Vadhagh to understand that. We believe -- believed -- that happiness was a natural condition of reasoning being..."
"Corum knew that he was mad, in Vadhagh terms. But he supposed that he was sane enough in Mabden terms. And this was, after all, now a Mabden world. He must learn to accept its peculiar disorders as no..."
"There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions."
"Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend..."
"Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves."
"We were all serious readers, sitting on wooden chairs at rows of lecterns, turning the pages, united in mutual love of isolation."