Oh! This isn't possible. You're dead." "So are you, but we're not going to let that get in our way. - Lawrence M. Schoen

She hated politics and she had no patience for the ultra-serious, wide-eyed dreamers who wanted to change your world whether you wanted to live with those changes or not.

We’ve met, and it wasn’t the highlight of my being dead.

As a historian, he understood that what in hindsight were taken to be grand events really consisted of a myriad of tiny, seemingly inconsequential choices. Often as not, great moments hung on coincidences and random luck.