Lawrence M. Schoen

"There’s a part of you that insists reality follow the same parameters it always has, even here. That attachment to the way things work in the living world precludes this kind of manipulation. I, on th…"

"I’m not accusing you of anything, but we both have studied too much history to ignore coincidence."

"In all the rest of my life’s wanderings, I never met another person who spoke words to rival the beauty of mathematics."

"We’ve met, and it wasn’t the highlight of my being dead."

"Ah, self-interest at last. Despite all of our differences, of race and time and distance, we achieve commonality. I understand self-interest."

"I gave destiny a push to make it happen. You study history, so stop your pathetic whining. You know better than most that destiny happens to us, it is never something we call forth."

"I’m dead, Jorl. You can’t tell me what to do."

"There will be paperwork, no government action can occur without it, but that can come later."