Everything was an adventure, at night, when you were where you shouldn't be, even if it was somwhere you could go perfectly well in daylight, and it was then only ordinary.

...there remained a strange formality between them, and her pleasure in his presence felt too much like missing him had felt during the last week.

Sylvi wished she could gouge out the look in Dorogin's stony eyes, and change the course of history. She wished Fthoom had been eaten by a sea monster.

Of course the cat will growl and spit at the operator and bite him if she can. But the real question is whether he is a vet or a vivisector.

The beginning of change can on start from accepting the fact that there are some things about your life that you desperately need to change or improve on.

God is not sitting in heaven thinking about how to make you comfortable. Your comfort might actually be his least concern.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Hunger is good discipline.

Freedom of action in space is as important to the United States as air power and sea power.

Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud.

There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies.

If people have multiple identities and deal with multiple realities, why should we expect them to be ontological purists?

Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God.