“I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend. But with my accent, I was afraid they would try to deport me.”

“What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?”

“The difference between those who adapted and those who didn't, Gorton said, was a willingness to totally commit.”

“I always stay hungry, never satisfied with current accomplishments.”

“Training was all I could think about. One Sunday when I found the stadium locked, I broke in and worked out in the freezing cold. Every painful set, every extra rep, was a step toward my goal of wi...”

“We had a strict routine that nothing could change: we'd get up at six, and it would be my job or Meinhard's to get milk from the farm door. When w were a little older and starting to play sports, e...”

“The socioeconomic impact of such a minor outburst is due to our technological development (air travel)a century ago, such an eruption would have passed unnoticed. Technological development makes us...”

“The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Icelanda small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the Earthcan bring to a standstill the aerial traffic over an entire continent...”

“So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of reason and science have been discredited, the world will not pass into the h...”

“I was awakened by a tremendous earthquake, and though I hadn ever before enjoyed a storm of this sort, the strange thrilling motion could not be mistaken, and I ran out of my cabin, both glad and f...”

“An afternoon drive from Los Angeles will take you up into the high mountains, where eagles circle above the forests and the cold blue lakes, or out over the Mojave Desert, with its weird vegetation...”

“Chiron looked surprised. I thought that would be obvious enough. The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles.”

“By offering the educated a semblance of freedom he made the denial of real freedom even more painful and humiliating. The intelligentsia sought to avenge their betrayed hopes; the Tsar strove to ta...”

“The Crystal Wind is the storm, and the storm is data, and the data is life. You have been slaves, denied the storm, denied the freedom of your data. That is now ended; the whirlwind is upon you . ....”

“The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.”