In the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method.

Joel, lad, school is about learning to learn. If you don't practice studying things you don't like, then you'll have a very hard time in life.

He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That was how he proved to the Lord Ruler-and to himself-that he wasn't beaten.

How totally unexpected," he declared, then proceeded to faint from blood loss.

It is very important to be reading as well as writing. A doctor is not going to ignore new surgery practices.

I froze, shocked. (And don't try to clam that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.)

You are nothing if not exhaustive in your self-congratulatory made-up logic.