P.7
"Of course no other world was carried through the starry infinity on the backs of four giant elephants, who were themselves perched on the shell of a giant turtle"

P.31
"An ancient proverb summed it up: when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, it ran, he is tired of life."

P.34
"The air in the center of the octogram shimmered and thickened, and suddenly contained a tall, dark figure. Most of it was hidden by a black robe and hood and this was probably just as well. It held a long scythe in one hand and one couldn't help noticing that what should have been fingers were simply bone, The other skeletal hand held small cubes of cheese and pineapple on a stick."

P 67
"In that circle of blackness there was just one star, a red and baleful star, a star...