I can recognize the first indistinct messages from the dark tower: a suggestion of regret; a footnote of embarrassment from some skewed remembrance.

When you know a monster by its True Name,when you have touched its cold, hard surface and measured its dimensions, it loses the better part of its power -- it becomes what it is, nothing more.

"Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child that you have stolen, for my will is as strong as yours, and my kingdom as great. You have no power over me." t jones--The Labyrinth