You’re loitering, citizen.” “Actually, I was hesitating.

You always fashioned yourself as the Empire's harshest Fist, didn't you, Korbolo Dom? As if cruelty's a virtue.

You are very easily exasperated, my dear. If you're a leaf trembling on a wide, deep river, relax and ride the current. It's always worked for me, I assure you.

Fear bespeaks of wisdom. Recognition of responsibility.

Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.

The art of illusion is grace itself.

The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises.