How can you hope to win against goddamn time travelers? It's like playing blackjack when the dealer is God. : Come to think of it, all of life is a blackjack game with God as the dealer, isn't it? So this is no worse.

A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.

Your sense of responsibility to others can never be excessive.

'They can hopscotch around us,' Chris told Laura. They can pop ahead in time to see where we show up, then they pick and choose the easiest place along the tim…

Like a blind spinner in the sun, I tread my days: I know that all the threads will run Appointed ways. I know each day will bring its task, And being blind no …

We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we can of our condition with the means …

'When the mirror meets with an ugly woman, when a rare ink-stone finds a vulgar owner, and when a good sword is in the hands of a common general, there is utte…