“So much technology, so little talent.”

“Tycoon had a peddler's talent for using words to redefine reality.”

“One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.”

“I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.”

“Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.”

“Programming went back to the beginning of time. It was a little like the midden out back of his father's castle.”

“It is an edged cliché that the world is most pleasant in the years of a Waning Sun. It is true that the weather is not so driven, that everywhere there is a sense of slowing down, and most places experience a few years where the summers do not burn and the winters are not yet overly fierce. It is the classic time of romance. It's a time that seductively beckons higher creatures to relax, postpone. It's the last chance to prepare for the end of the world.”