“ You're the right colour for the Angel of Death, Mister Cale. But a little short.' 'I could cut your head off and stand on it. Then I'd be taller. Paul Hoffman
“ As it happens I don't think it was God- the woman who saved me, she doesn't look like she's had much to do with angels, Perhaps the Devil was behind me all the time. Paul Hoffman
“ Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims - the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is that nobody really possesses a great kind of power for long. Th… Paul Hoffman
“ In such a beast as this..." (he means the army)"...it was the collective power that went, collapsing like a long-exhausted animal, at once falling under its own weight as much as that of its enemy. It… Paul Hoffman
“ The battle had been as hideous as you might expect between one side who were simply not afraid to die and another who regarded death as merely a door to the eternal life. Paul Hoffman
“ ... If the dead can come back to this earth and move unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you; in the garish day and in the darkest night—amidst your happiest scenes and gloomiest ho… Paul Hoffman
“ Do you have any idea how mad you sound?’‘Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of my sanity.’ (...)‘And?’‘Then I consider what a piece of work is man. How defective in reason… Paul Hoffman
“ It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your soul. Paul Hoffman
“ Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims—the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. Paul Hoffman
“ ...Again she did not seem to hear, still looking into Cale’s eyes. Then slowly, hopelessly, she dropped her gaze. “I understand,” she said. It was that, of course, that pierced him as if she had stabb… Paul Hoffman
“ ...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone. Paul Hoffman
“ We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy. Paul Hoffman
“ When he said someone had 'died", Erdős meant that that the person had stopped doing mathematics. When he said someone had "left", the person had died. Paul Hoffman
“ - Why you?- (...) I’m the best.- Modest of you.- I am the best. Modesty has nothing to say about it. Paul Hoffman
“ Until two days ago what had driven him was the will to survive: deep, animal, full of rage—but always part of him had not cared at all whether he lived or died. Now he did care, and very deeply, and s… Paul Hoffman
“ Hypocrites,’ replied Cale, ‘I’ve come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are. Paul Hoffman
