"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.”

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

“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.”