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

“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.”

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

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

“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...”

“The best way to filter out the bad seeds was to place a job ad for Prime Minister in a national newspaper and all those that applied would be automatically disqualified.”

“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.”

“There isn't anything you can't make run a little better, a little faster, a little smoother, if you take the time to analyse it and component-split the processes.”

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

“In a world like this with no laws, no charter of human rights, it's the women who suffer. It's the women who learn what it is to be tough, not the men.”

“If you're reading this, then I guess someone, somewhere does go through the rubbish and read every piece of paper that gets balled up and tossed away. So in that case here it is- my name's Sal.”