“Imagine! How the world has changed in only twenty years! Only evil stays the same, year after year.”

“I no nothing of god or the devil, and after 400 years... This is the only real evil left...”

“As far as I can tell there are only two emotions that keep the world spinning year after year...One is fear. The other is desire.”

“I am a rationalist, and I don't believe in genies, or sudden personality changes. I wanted David's anger to vanish only after years and years in therapy.”

“It appears - because it has been the case for twenty years - that every problem is solvable...that no matter how badly the world economy slumps there is a pain-free way out of it. Once the realization dawns that there is not, and that the pain will be severe, the question is posed that has not really been posed for twenty years: who should feel it?”

“Not one country in existence today has had the same borders and government for as long as two hundred years. The world will continue changing.”