“A cat may look at a king.”— John Heywood Related Quotes “An obscure flesh-and-blood Gascon, forgotten by History, transformed into a legendary giant by the novelist’s genius”— Arturo Pérez-Reverte “Good is not good, where better is expected.”— Thomas Fuller “It howled execration upon the dim camarine world of its nativity wail on wail while he lay there gibbering with palsied jawhasps, his hands putting back the night like some witless Paraclete beleaguered with all limbo’s clamor.”— Cormac McCarthy