Destiny's Champion, Fate's fool. Eternity's Soldier, Time's Tool.

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

What the local politicians actually meant was that they hoped to claim the land in the name of the public and then make the usual profits privatizing it. There was a principle at stake. They had to ensure their friends and not outsiders got the benefit.

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

I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.

Destiny's Champion, Fate's fool. Eternity's Soldier, Time's Tool.

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.