When two people met for the first time in Diaspar—or even for the hundredth—it was customary to spend an hour or so in an exchange or courtesies before getting down to business, if any.

Pay any price you have to. We're in a seller's market right now.

Thank you to Cody Anderson who gave me the opportunity to do my own talk radio program. I had tried a little something something a few years earlier, and I also co-hosted the Matah Program along with Anthony Phillips and Norm Bond, before Cody gave me the green light to do my own thing.

Yet she must dye, else shee'l betray more men: Put out the Light, and then put out the Light: If I quench thee, thou flaming Minister, I can againe thy former light restore, Should I repent me. But once put out thy Light, Thou cunning'st Patterne of excelling Nature, I know not where is that Promethaean heate That can thy Light re-Lume.