The students were staring at her in the manner of those who have heard of the species 'female' but have never expected to get this close to one.

What your soldier wants - really, really wants - is no-one shooting back at him.

Money makes people rich; it is a fallacy to think it makes them better, or even that it makes them worse. People are what they do, and what they leave behind.

But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions.

There have been better attempts at marching, and they have been made by penguins.

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.

...William wondered why he always disliked people who said 'no offense meant.' Maybe it was because they found it easier to to say 'no offense meant' than actually to refrain from giving offense.