some things are better off back in the past. Where they belong.

It’s easy to forgo distractions and to not accumulate things when you have a larger goal on the horizon.

Imagine the first discovery that one of these epidemics was man-made—the panic, the violence that would ensue. That’s where the end would come. A typhoon kills a few hundred people, does a few billion in damage, and what do we do?” Erskine interlocked his fingers. “We come together. We put the pieces back. But a terrorist’s bomb.” He frowned. “A terrorist’s bomb does the same damage, and it throws the world into turmoil.” He spread his hands apart like an explosion going off. “When there’s only God to blame, we forgive him. When it’s our fellow man, we must destroy him.

My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight.

One of the many things that surprised me about Wool is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers.

Predict the inevitable", she said, "and you're bound to be right one day.

That's the problem with the truth," Darcy said. "Liars and honest men both claim to have it.