Love is random; fear is inevitable.

One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

The nations that offer to arbitrate are the ones that think they should rule the world.

It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are.

So you love me," said Petra softly when the kiss ended. I'm a raging mass of hormones thet I'm too young to understand," said Bean. "You're a female of a closely related species. According to all the best primatologists, I really have no choice." That's nice," she said.

We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.