“And every one of these events is connected. But not by luck: it's pure cause and effect.”

“There are hundreds of possible causes for every effect, and a hundred possible effects for every cause.”

“The historical method includes the presupposition that history is a unity in the sense of a closed continuum of effects in which individual events are connected by the succession of cause and effect....This closedness means that the continuum of historical happenings cannot be rent by the interference of supernatural transcendent powers and that therefore there is no "miracle" in this sense of the word.”

“Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”

“If you control the cause you own the effect. If you don't, events will unfold like dominoes toppling and you will have no one to blame but yourself.”

“I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.”