Helianthus snorted. “Olorun is like his mother: he will only change as the face of a rock changes. But . . . I think he missed you.

My child will bear those scars forever, ” Tilv said angrily. “And if he isn’t a fool, perhaps your child will learn from them, ” Neferre returned calmly.

The beginning is easy what happens next is much harder.

People in New England think that the Red Sox won that series, three games to four.

Does making money excite me? No, but I have to make money for my shareholders. What excites me is achievement, doing something difficult.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

I went out as a free agent in Boston and had a great year and I priced myself out of there market, at the time.

To be human is to be challenged to be more divine. Not even to try to meet such a challenge is the biggest defeat imaginable.

Be a scientist, save the world.

The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness.

Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.

A leader is an average, everyday person who is highly motivated.