"Three unique and still timely aspects of Miller's text Living Systems were his citation of 173 specific ‘cross-level’ hypotheses, his unification of a vast number of phenomena from the biomedical sciences to the social sciences using a consistent taxonomy of seven hierarchical levels and 20 subsystems, and his consistent effort to make systems hypotheses more testable."

"Dear reader, do you know the living God? Is He, in Jesus, your Father? Be assured that Christianity is some…"

"Suddenly he saw them, the bottles of aguardiente, of anís, of jerez, of Highland Queen, the glasses, a babe…"

"The spirits of people and creatures and plants don't take up any room at all. But their bodies do. Bodies a…"

"Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affecti…"

"On the evening of the 29th, the army fell back to the north end of the Island. The next morning, the enemy …"

"And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit."