It's a reality check. These other countries took it seriously. You have to realize that other countries play the game and that anything can happen in a three-game series. It's do, or die.

We are just peasants with money.

Conscience: That which makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.

Oh, man," Xavier groaned. "See what you've done-now I'm stressed." "You can't! You're the stable one!

Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad lasts for very very long.

If the gods do evil then they are not gods.

I find it somewhat difficult to write with other people, although it has happened occasionally.

Women power is a formidable force.

men never would share power with women willingly. If we wanted it, we would have to take it.

People think, 'Jack, you do too much.

People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it is found they are disposed to bear them.