Here, I thought, I had found the human race in its final stages of decadence perverse, insouciant, without ambition. And I could not blame them. After all, they had no future.

Introduce your main characters and themes in the first third of your novel. If you are writing a plot-driven genre novel make sure all your major themes/plot elements are introduced in the first third, which you can call the introduction. Develop your themes and characters in your second third, the development. Resolve your themes, mysteries and so on in the final third, the resolution.

Because I had sought to challenge Destiny, Destiny had taken vengeance.

It's getting late. I must return to my ship or my men will think I've drowned and be celebrating.

It's History that's caused all the troubles in the past.

The problems for which I could find no solution in fact had no solution.

I know not which I prefer the look of—those who attack us or that which defends us!