Craig

“I have no sword, Steward thought, and the thought was triumphant. From the state which is above and beyond, from thought I make my sword.”
― Walter Jon Williams, Voice of the Whirlwind (Author's Preferred Edition)

“Curzon stood up. He gestured with a fist. “I don’t want you to think about anything,” he said. “I want you to feel. Feel the rightness of this. The correctness of this vision. The necessity of it.” Steward could see patches of sweat under Curzon’s arms. “I want you to sense, Steward, that this is something worth having.”
― Walter Jon Williams, Voice of the Whirlwind (Author's Preferred Edition)

“Yol Bolsun" (May there be a road) [Louis L'Amour}”
― Louis L'Amour, The Walking Drum

“Moving like a rat in its maze. Programmed. Performing a function that it was not capable of understanding, on behalf of people whose entire existence was outside its knowledge, detected only as feet occasionally planted in its way.”
― Walter Jon Williams, Voice of the Whirlwind (Author's Preferred Edition)