The enlightened man enjoys perfect freedom in active life. He is like a dragon supported by deep waters or like a tiger that commands its mountain retreat. The man who is not enlightened drifts about in the affairs of the world. He is like a ram that gets its horns caught in a fence or like a man who waits for a hare to run against a tree stump and stun itself.
~ Hekiganroku by Setcho

When the old mapmakers got to the edge of the world they used to write: "Beyond this place, there be Dragons."
~ Barclay Cole
The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you? If you can count on his doing the former, and not doing the latter, why then you're a dragonlord.
~ The Tombs of Atuan, Ursula LeGuin
Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon.
-Steven Brust
-Steven Brust






