I have neither talent or taste for kingship, cousin. I am a warrior, and to dwell always in one place and live at court would weary me to death!
Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.
The visible world was only an imperfect reflection of the Ideal, which the Philosopher sought to transcend.
Fear is a way of not allowing yourself to choose freely what you will do next; a way of letting your body’s reflexes, not the needs of your mind, choose for you.
The truth is not so good a story.
Flowers and fruit are only the beginning. In the seed lies the life and the future.
A woman is never free to bear a child unless she is also free to abort it.
One of the earliest lessons I learned was not to read my reviews. Weigh them.
A priestess of Avalon does not lie. But I am cast out of Avalon, and for this, and unless it is all to be for nothing, I must lie, and lie well and quickly.
I am dedicated to the belief that it is God’s will that all men should strive for wisdom in themselves, not look to it from some other. Babes, perhaps, must have their food chewed for them by a nurse, but men may drink and eat of wisdom for themselves.
The Goddess has a fourth face. It is secret, and you should prey, as I do, as I do Igraine, that Morgause will never wear that face.
There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever.
A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower.
What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife?
I wasn’t a child at 13, were you?
On one occasion I shared a bed with about seven other people, but we were all having a party overnight.
I never thought that I was very intelligent.
I’ve been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts.
If you listen to dogs barking you will go deaf without learning anything.
Arthur, their young king, like a hero out of legend.