He felt like a baked bean in a can, soaring through the air on a downward turn of a parabolic arc...

I'm psychologically equipped for this.

...while the stony bones of the world tore past and the air grew dark and howling. The last thing he saw as the gulley became a torrent of dust and rock was the Jeep, plucked backwards into space.

Fear is quite the anaesthetic

His desire for this to be a joke was quickly replaced by a desire for whiskey.

Max?' he asked.'Yeah?''...What are you doing?''Shooting people.

Odessa sighed. 'When I said you were one of the smartest people in the company, I was referring solely to your technical abilities. Now get to work.

But the things in the batteries couldn't be spiders. It just wasn't possible. There had to be another explanation. But of what kind?

Simon shook his head. 'I don't want to be a hero. I'd rather abandon the technology altogether, sit on a hill and speak to my neighbours by smoke-signal.

...a fissure appeared. Splinters of plastic broke away around it, and the fissure widened, radiating further fractures.When the first leg broke out, Simon tried to shriek.

Who gave you a gun?''The army.''Why?''That's what the army does, Simon.

A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.

The weekends are really important to me; the use of technology is really important to me.

I really hate alcohol. I hate it because it's linked so closely to sexual assault in our culture.

We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit.

It is difficult to be yourself on court, as you become very involved in the match and very focused.

I was hired as a penciler.

No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year.

Frazier's got two chances. Slim, and none. And Slim just left town

In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

The last time the Cubs won the World Series was 1908. The last time they were in one was 1945. Hey, any team can have a bad century.