“The surprise was worse that the pain. It showed a lack of awareness.”

“Most wars start with a lie, good wars, bad wars, they start with a lie, and the peace that comes afterwards, those promises of forgiveness and cooperation and fair play for all those are lies too, ...”

“Time is the only thing even money can't buy.”

“People want to believe.”

“Freedom is a terrible burden, much too heavy for the weak man to bear.”

“I'm married to the future.”

“There is a saying that bad traders divorce their spouse sooner than abandon their positions. Loyalty to ideas is not a good thing for traders, scientists - or anyone.”

“I was relying on youth be loyal to the specific variety of compromise and unhappiness, which our hard-won marriage represents.”

“It is not until an act occurs within the landscape of the past and future that it is a human act. Loyalty, which asserts the continuity of past and future, binding time into a whole, is the root of...”