He has no belief—faith is beneath his dignity—but he enjoys the designed madness of religion. - Ian McDonald

She had trapped the bird of salvation, sung to it, tamed it and wrung its neck.

Legends should stay legends; otherwise they just become history, when the natural course of things is the other way around, from history to legend.

The five minutes ticked away on Limaal Mandella’s fob watch and the tension wound tight around Corporation Plaza. Rael Mandella Jr., sweating in his father’s best championship suit, was horrified to realize how few of such brief five-minute periods went to make up a lifetime.