A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.

The mystery of the universe is not time but size.

Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy.

Do you believe in an afterlife?" the gunslinger asked him as Brown dropped three ears of hot corn onto his plate. Brown nodded. "I think this is it.

Above, the stars shone hard and bright, sparks struck off the dark skin of the universe.

I worry about you Bev. I worry a lot.