It is in our nature to destroy what we create. (Dr. Paul Kramer)

In a world turned upside-down, where everything was wrong, bizarre, you could at least look up at the sky and see normality. Stars that shone regardless of who won a civil war, or who should or should not be a president. Their light was billions of years old. They didn't have a care.

I am no coward sir! I shall stand and fight! Well, I am, said Sal. So can we go... please?

We're all dead the moment we're born. Just, some of us get there faster than others.

Time travel is a terrifying weapon, far more powerful than anything ever before conceived,' he said grimly.'Mankind just isn't ready for that kind of knowledge. We're like children casually playing with an atom bomb.

After all, what more does a true genius want? The mind itself is the palace where all the real treasures, the works of art, the indulgences exist.