R.A. Salvatore, Streams of Silver

"No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith."

"How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world,"I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?"