“Oh Julie, wouldnt I know if you were dead? Wouldnt I feel it happening, like a jolt of electricity to my heart?”

“Look at me! I screeched. Look at me, Amadeus von Linden, you sadistic hypocrite, and watch this time! Youre not questioning me now, this isnt your work, Im not an enemy agent spewing wireless code!...”

“Theres glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will”

“Don't know how I kept going. You just do. You have to, so you do.”

“Mary Queen of Scots had a little dog, a Skye terrier, that was devoted to her. Moments after Mary was beheaded, the people who were watching saw her skirts moving about and they thought her headles...”

“It was wonderful flirting with him, all the razor-edged literary banter, like Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. A battle of wit, and a test, too.”

“Visionary decision-making happens at the intersection of intuition and logic.”

“Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene for the spiritual fodder we need to grow and achieve deeper elevation of our souls.”

“Choose your love. Love your choice.”

“Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for us. We can have all the hell we want.”

“Freedom is an absolute state, there is no such thing as being half-free.”

“Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details.”

“Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.”

“Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.”

“Most of the men sitting in first class on an airplane have really boring jobs.”