"It all seemed like madness, but was madness anything other than desperation blended with hope?"

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

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

“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.”