We fought.''A duel?''Nothing that formal. A simultaneous decision to murder one another is more like it.
Unlike the other darkside Lords, whose places of power were fixed geographical localities where they reigned supreme, Jack’s was more a tenuous one, and liable to speedy cancellation, but it existed w...
Tonight I will suck the marrow from your bones! it said. I will dry them and work them most cunningly into instruments of music! Whenever I play upon them, your spirit will writhe in bodiless agony!Yo...
I have many names, and none of them matter. Names are not important. To speak is to name names, but to speak is not important. A thing happens once that has never happened before. Seeing it, a man loo...
Death and Light are everywhere, always, and they begin, end, strive, attend, into and upon the Dream of the Nameless that is the world, burning words within Samsara, perhaps to create a thing of beaut...
As a student of business administration, I know that there is a law of evolution for organizations as stringent and inevitable as anything in life. The longer one exists, the more it grinds out restri...
A prisoner of he who has already slain you once, he thought. No doubt near to his place of power, in a cage built just for me. Bad. Bad. There
And call me Conrad!
We crossed a small but sturdy wooden bridge a little later, but no trolls were taking tolls.
The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the one is to lose sight of the three. I may subm...
Suchtimes are rare, such times are fleeting, but always bright when caught, measured, hung, and later regardedin times of adversity, there in the kinder halls of memory, against the flapping of the fl...
Predosjećaji su se igrali lovice u dubinama moga uma, ali niti jedan od njih nije mi se sviđao dovoljno da bih ga poveo na ručak.
Once a Buddha, always a Buddha, Sam. Dust off some of your old parables. You have about fifteen minutes. Sam held out his hand. Give me some tobacco and a paper. He accepted the package, rolled himsel...
Now, in every city into which I venture, uniforms rush upon me, dust dandruff from my collar, press a brochure into my hand, recite the latest weather report, pray for my soul, throw walk-shields over...
Most people who daydream of transforming themselves into some vicious beast and going about tearing people's throats out, dismembering them, disfiguring them and perhaps devouring them tend mainly to...
Later, much later, I was to see this for the rationalization it was; my real reason for denying her the answers she desired was that I was not ready to trust her, or anyone, so close to me as I really...
I’m all right now, I said, but leave me alone. I’m going down to the river to bathe. I took seven steps, and then someone must have pulled out the plug, because I gurgled, everything swirled, and the...
I would never rest until I held vengeance and the throne within my hand, and good night sweet prince to anybody who stood between me and these things.
I was willing to die fighting, but it was senseless for all these men to go down with me. Perhaps my blood was tainted, despite my power over the Pattern. A true prince of Amber should have had no suc...
I loved him like a brother - which is to say, not at all.