“And the great thing about money is that it doesnt matter when you harvest it. Its an all-year crop.”

“The destination of the journey could not be altered, only the manner in which one approached it - whether one chose to walk erect or to be dragged complaining through the dust.”

“People perish. Books are immortal.”

“Brave words. Easy to write when one was young and death was still skulking over a distant hill somewhere... - Pg. 82”

“Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually. - Pg. 195”

“Nature has granted man no better gift than the shortness of life. The senses grow dull, the limbs are numb, sight, bearing, gait, even the teeth and alimentary organs die before we do, and yet this...”

“For them, it was just an ordinary miracle.”

“...only a fool would believe in miracles because - let us say you are a child and an adult lifts this table. That's a miracle. Or you're a chemist and you combine acid and base and you make smoke, ...”

“The moment is a miracle.”

“...We understood nothing at all. Not what it meant to wish for a miracle... nor its price.”

“The human body cannot survive being in temperatures over 200 degrees centigrade for more than a few moments, especially in the fast moving current of a surge. Trying to breathe in the dense cloud o...”