"“So, you’re saying you have no idea what this stuff is.” At last, something that sounded plausible."

"What’s the point of history, if it has nothing to say to the present?"

"You could try and breed territoriality out of the bone, but like a bad fairy it popped up again and again in all sort…"

"Life did what it did, purposelessly, and only humans strove to impose a meaning where no meaning was needed. She view…"

"I love to live vicariously, in a book or a holo, but I think I can stand one dose of reality before it’s my time."

"Gritter thought it was about time the complacent louts at the top of the heap got to have a genuine red-hot poker up …"

"It is the rare person who can stand aside and observe that our minds and identities are largely constructs of our soc…"

"The gun is a consequence of our minds. If we were in love with peace, and had no will to destroy each other, there wo…"

"So she might die here—well, she could have died anywhere, so who cared where? That didn’t interest her. Life and myst…"

"On the other hand...why was there always an “other hand”?"