"I was thinking of going into the assassination business. You know what a dreamer I am. Would it be too much of a hit …"

"Some try to understand the world, while others seek to impose their understanding on it. Unfortunately, Mr. Smiles, t…"

"Even ruin could not make it picturesque. The streets were awash with weather-stained postcards, bedraggled and muddy …"

"“There’s more to life than drugs and sex, Mr. Cornelius.” “There’s more than life to drugs and sex. It’s better than …"

"“I appreciate this quest for national identity,” she said, “but it does seem that most traditions were dropped for th…"

"“Better the myth of happiness,” Harlequin murmured, “than the myth of despair.”"

"Time was the enemy of identity."

"Destiny’s Champion, Fate’s fool. Eternity’s Soldier, Time’s Tool."

"Yesterday’s underdog is tomorrow’s tyrant."

"What kind of chromosomes a person has is called his genotype, and the appearance of a person is called his phenotype.…"