"“The syndicated journalist?” “The syndicated muckraker would be more like it,” Dr. Walker said. “Mister Sensationalis…"

"I think I’m as normal as the next guy. But I won’t go after what I want regardless of the price. Doing that nullifies…"

"Oh, a few temple priests have been predicting dire things in an effort to improve public morals, but no one takes the…"

"I was warned that you were an authoritarian personality, Dr. Lindstrum – not to say overbearing. The warnings were no…"

"Sir, you are continually insulting. Is that because you are afraid of losing your authority? Is that why you give fre…"

"“An astonishing story,” Bomfils said. “I regret to say that I do not believe it.”"

"Iron can destroy anything: families, fortunes, governments, whole countries. It's the most powerful stuff in the univ…"

"He was just a lieutenant of the line, a small cog in an immense machine. Besides, all that really mattered to him was…"

"They had taken no more than a dozen steps away from the cottages when a musket barrel came smashing through an unbrok…"

"He saw it all summed up in the blind marching of that nameless unit. A vision of gaunt shapes, sharp shiny steel, dim…"