Lord, if what I'm doing is wrong, then by all means strike me down. Otherwise set me free.

You think you want to know the secrets of the universe. You think you want to see the way things all fit together. You believe in your heart of hearts that enlightenment will save the world and set you free. Maybe it will. But the path to enlightenment is rarely a pleasant one.

So much of my life had been under tight control. So much of Quinn's life had been wild insanity. What we needed now was both: a directed burst of controlled insanity.

You'll feel a tingling in your chest," says a surgeon. "It's nothing to worry about.

Small victories are bet­ter than none.

Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.

Do you know that if you take the books in an average school library and stretched out all those words into a single line, the line would go all the way around the world? Actually, I made that up, but doesn't it sound like it should be true?