Blackmail is the only refuge of the literate man against barbarism. - James A. Michener

Shelomith’s hand falls from mine, and all I can think of is that somehow I must seek out the new king to see if he plans the building of new edifices. But Shelomith has dropped to her knees and I hear her praying, “Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.

wherever a human being goes, there is a challenge. Be the best man you can, and your gods will look with favor upon you.

And in this way the Ukrainian cossack Trofim Zhdanko acquired a ship he wanted, a wife he admired and a son he abhorred.