“If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone”

“It was all right to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it.”

“At the end of her life she was aware of heat but not pain. She had time to consider his eyes, eyes of that blue which is the color of the sky at first light of the morning. She had time to think of...”

“A bad song for a night such as this, mayhap, but her heart went its own way without much interest in what her head thought or wanted; always had.”

“and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended”

“Now the two of them rode silently toward town, both lost in their own thoughts. Their way took them past the Delgado house. Roland looked up and saw Susan sitting in her window, a bright vision in ...”

“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”

“Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.”

“Immer wieder behauptete Unwahrheiten werden nicht zu Wahrheiten, sondern, was schlimmer ist, zu Gewohnheiten.”