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

“Was all of the universe a fixed game, if one only knew where and how to look?”

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

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

“As a historian, he understood that what in hindsight were taken to be grand events really consisted of a myriad of tiny, seemingly inconsequential choices. Often as not, great moments hung on coincidences and random luck.”

“Prophecy is first and foremost a self-serving gift.”

“The Archetype of Man had not leaped to any false conclusions, had not mistaken Jorl for a deity. Rather, it withheld judgment until it had compiled sufficient explanation.”