Miles clutched Quinn's elbow. "Don't Panic." "I'm not panicking," Quinn observed, "I'm watching you panic. It's more entertaining .

I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.

The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.

It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, without anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present - they are real.

I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.