If you think that Man is free to build a new life while the rest of the world drifts by, then you do not know anything of history! - Terry Brooks

You think that Man can start again, do you, Shea? Well you might be quite surprised to learn that some things never change, and that the dangers of power are always present, even to a race that almost obliterated itself.

If you are always frightened for yourself you can't act, and then life loses its purpose. You just have to tell yourself that, when you get right down to it, you don't matter all that much.

The trick of course was not to go just anywhere, but to go where they might accomplish something useful.