Lawrence M. Schoen

"I’m dead, Jorl. You can’t tell me what to do."

"We’ve met, and it wasn’t the highlight of my being dead."

"As a historian, he understood that what in hindsight were taken to be grand events really consisted of a myriad of tiny, seemingly inconsequential choices. Often as not, great moments hung on coincidences and random luck."

"It all seemed like madness, but was madness anything other than desperation blended with hope?"

"Ah, self-interest at last. Despite all of our differences, of race and time and distance, we achieve commonality. I understand self-interest."

"I mean, sure, like all prophecy the wording is vague."