Are you ready? I'm three blocks past ready. Pardon? Skip it.

How many black holes have we been up close and personal with?" Kosta countered. "All sorts of odd things happen near the event horizon, from huge tidal forces to variations in time. Personally, I'm voting on it having to do with gravity, either a polarization of the fields themselves or else something related to the time differential." I didn't know physics had become a democracy," Hanan murmered.

For the Jedi, there is no emotion; there is peace.

The choices of one shape the futures of all.

Governments and entire planets are important, Threepio. But when you sift everything down, they're all just made of people.

If the new movies do contradict my books in some way, I can probably come up with some hand-waving story that will explain the apparent discrepancy. If there’s one thing we authors are good at, it’s hand-waving.

Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.