If people knew the story of their lives, how many would then elect to live them?

The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't.

When the shooting starts would you rather be armed or legal?

To see God everywhere is to see Him nowhere.

People apparently only read mystery stories of any length. With mysteries, the longer the better, and people will read any damn thing. But the indulgent, 800-page books that were written a hundred years ago are just not going to be written anymore, and people need to get used to that.

War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is scrupulous. The shape is drawn. No line can be erased. I had no belief in your ability to move a coin to your bidding. How could you? A person's path through the world seldom changes and even more seldom will it change abruptly. And the shape of your path was visible from the beginning.