"[Y]ou have to save yourself before you can save anyone else."

"Maybe all people with minds like Isaac's were the same. She knew he would make a much larger contribution than she ev…"

"There's parts of me I don't understand, he said, and shrugged."

"There'd always been something about the boy, he was smart and stupid at the same time. As if he was meant to do every…"

"I wonder if I am going crazy or if I do not love my family enough, or if it is the opposite, if I love them too much.…"

"She wondered how people would remember her. She had not made enough to spread her wealth around like Carnegie, to era…"

"To be a simple animal like my father, untroubled by consciousness, or conscience. To sleep soundly, at east with your…"

"What would I tell her? That I have always known I belonged here? That one day some action will be required that will …"

"Would you end war? Create great Peace."

"To be a god First I must be a god-maker: We are what we create."