“Let the thunder break on man and beast and bird
And the lightning. It is something to have been.”

“Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.”

“If the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will.”

“Thunder impresses, but it’s lightning does the work.”

“Pity is the messenger of Love
as lightning is of thunder.”

“They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.”

“Regarding technique, from ancient times it has been said that movements must fly like lightning and attacks must strike like thunder.”

“When shall we three meet again
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?”

“Pain. I seem to have an affection, a kind of sweettooth for it. Bolts of lightning, little rivulets of thunder.
And I the eye of the storm.”

“What are you?" I whispered.
He shrugged again.
"Something," he said. "Something like you, something like a beast, something like a bird, something like an angel." He laughed. "Something like that.”