Chaos is no surprise. It has predictable characteristics. For one thing, it carries away order and strengthens the forces at the extremes. - Frank Herbert

The voice of a rebeck echoed from somewhere behind him. The music echoed and echoed until it entered his head, still echoing. It suffused his body and he felt himself to be large, very large, not a child at all. And his skin was not his own.

There has never been a truly selfless rebel, just hypocrites — conscious hypocrites or unconscious hypocrites, it’s all the same.

It is not the present which influences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward. Since the future is set, an unfolding of events which will assure that future is fixed and inevitable.