To tell the truth, the only thing more exhausting than doing something is doing nothing at all. - Jack L. Chalker

All magic means is a line between knowledge and ignorance," Ortega responded. "A magician is someone who can do something you don't know how to do. All technology, for example, is magic to a primitive.

I don't think you're God, Nate," Ortega replied evenly. "I think you're crazy.

He had often wondered if there was something deep in the human psyche that insisted on tribalism. People used to fight wars not so much to protect their own life-style but to impose it on others.