"There is a difference between tragedy and blind brutal calamity. Tragedy has meaning, and there is dignity in it. Tra…"

"Whatever you specialize in, another specialty will either gobble you, or find a way to replace you. If you get what l…"

"Brother Francis Gerard of Utah might never have discovered the blessed documents, had it not been for the pilgrim wit…"

"Encounters between strangers in the desert, while rare, were occasions of mutual suspicion, and masked by initial pre…"

"He had never seen a "Fallout," and he hoped he'd never see one. A consistent description of the monster had not survi…"

"From the lightning and the tempest, O Lord, deliver us. From the scourge of the earthquake, O Lord, deliver us. From …"

"When Brother Francis had removed the last tray, he touched the papers reverently: only a handful of folded documents …"

"How easy it would have been flatly to have told the boy that his pilgrim was only an old tramp of some kind, and then…"

"The Simplification had ceased to have plan or purpose soon after it began, and became an insane frenzy of mass murder…"

"The old man was sad as he sat on his porch. He knew so little of the Great Purpose. Why must his seed fling itself st…"