
“Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.”
― The Elephant Tree
― The Elephant Tree

“By late October, after Cox had been fired, Kissinger’s anxieties about the President had become more acute. “Sometimes I get worried,â€� he said. “The President is like a madman.â€� Kissinger was deeply pessimistic. He had looked to the second Nixon administration as a once-in-a-century opportunity to build a new American foreign policy, to achieve new international structures based on unquestioned American strength, détente with the Soviets and China, a closer bond with Europe. It seemed no longer possible. Watergate was shattering the illusion of American strength, he said, and with it American foreign policy.”
― The Final Days
― The Final Days

“My conscience is killing me, isn't it? And when you're immortal that can be a really long and ignominious death”
― The Tale of the Body Thief
― The Tale of the Body Thief

“Truthfully, Professor Hawking? Why would we allow tourists from the future muck up the past when your contemporaries had the task well in Hand?"
Brigadier General Patrick E Buckwalder 2241C.E.”
― Paradox Effect: Time Travel and Purified DNA Merge to Halt the Collapse of Human Existence
Brigadier General Patrick E Buckwalder 2241C.E.”
― Paradox Effect: Time Travel and Purified DNA Merge to Halt the Collapse of Human Existence

“They gave no alms; in their view charity simply demoralized people. If you worked as hard as they did then you would earn as much too: it was open to everyone to do so, and if you didn’t know how to get on in life that was your own fault.”
― The Pianist
― The Pianist
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