“A broken clock is right two times a day.”

“And yet.. even if you had been right, it would only have been by accident. A broken clock is right two times a day.”

“There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.”

“History is an omlette. THe eggs are already broken.”

“I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.”

“Once these two had been joined together in love, or something like love; they had made two babies, and yet, only fifteen years later, the last tie between them was broken now. All lost, all gone. Nothing lasted, nothing. Even this forty-million-year world that the Oversoul had preserved as if in ice, even it would melt before the fire. Permanence was always an illusion, and love was just the disguise that lovers wore to hide the death of their union from each other for a while.”

“This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world. Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin, for instance. Bismark. Lenin.”