Sagas wouldn't be interesting if terrible things didn't happen to the people in them.

You can’t win unless you try to win, but you can lose by trying not to lose.

Security is not a license for people in authority to hide the tactics they would never openly admit to using.

I need to stop getting into situations where all my options are potentially bad.

He felt the comfort of being part of an eternal cycle symbolized by the gold strips on either side of the black mourning band he wore. Light, dark, light. The dark was just an interval.

Love needs expression, Captain Geary, or doubts grow amid the silence. Doubts of the other and doubts of yourself.

How many dragons does a girl have to slay to get some respect around here?

Her hand gripped his, and even amid the fear and danger he marveled at the feeling that came with the contact. If we die holding hands in this way, will we enter the next dream together?

... anyone who really believed what they were saying could get it said in a lot fewer words.

Fast and stupid is still stupid. It just gets you to stupid a lot quicker than humans could on their own. Which, I admit, is an accomplishment, " she added, "because we're pretty damn good at stupid.

We're here to work, not to make friends,

I don’t see why the things we believe absolutely now shouldn’t be just as wrong as what they believed in the past.’‘Neither do I.’‘Then how can you believe anything at all?’‘I don’t know.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

I always save a few special outfits for the final rounds of a tournament, because they put me in a more positive mindset and I then make better decisions.

Sam, had a great time this weekend but the golf was lousey.

Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden.

He couldn't figure out if she was immensely well adjusted or seriously messed up.

Philosophy and the arts are but a manifestation of the intelligible ideas that move the public mind; and thus they become visible images of the nations whence they emanate.

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.