There are no great performances without great audiences, and this is t — Cornish Trilogy

"So what was I to do? To go backward was base: to go forward an adventure into splendour and terror. But it was forward I must go."

"What we call luck is the inner man externalized"

"It is a firm critical principle that nobody living is quite as good as somebody dead."

"I had known him for years in a casual way, but I had never seen very deeply into him. He seemed to me to have more conscience than is good for any man. A powerful conscience and no sense of humour — a dangerous combination."

"Parlabane had done something that had a little unhinged me; he had awakened the Maenad in me, that spirit which any woman of any character keeps well suppressed, but shakes men badly when it is revealed. The Maenads, who tore Pentheus to bloody scraps and ate him, are not dead, just sleeping."

"That is what lends splendour to a university," said the Warden. "Not these dreadful interruptions of the natural order." "You lean always toward the light, Warden; perhaps both are necessary, for completeness."