You must not make the mistake of thinking that because nothing lasts, nothing matters.

For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .

When does loyalty become martyrdom?

Stupid people do stupid things, but people who are smart enough can do something really stupid.

Ah, books." Ziegler, smiling, came up behind me. "They bob like corks on an ocean. Float between worlds, messages in bottles.

Personally, I don't believe in anything more supernatural than what you read about in the Bible, and I only believe that one day out of seven.

There are so many kinds of time. The time by which we measure our lives. Months and years. Or the big time, the time that raises mountains and makes stars. Or all the things that happen between one heartbeat and the next. Its hard to live in all those kinds of times. Easy to forget that you live in all of them.