"An hiatus in government is so detested and abhorred, that the law says, "the King never dies," that there may never be a "cesser" of regal f…"

— John Eardley Wilmot

"Shiite Islam was revived and transformed by Iranians in direct reaction not only against western separation of religion from political-econo…"

— Richard A. Horsley

"Even eternally free people are enslaved by the process of living."

— Chuck Klosterman

"Empires were like seawalls, he thought sadly, even those which embodied the best of hopes. The tide of chaos beat at them, and as soon as no…"

— Tad Williams

"...they were nobodies in the county, they would leave nothing behind but their headstones."

— John Updike