"With a mental effort, he grabbed hold of his thoughts and braked them to a stop. There was something new here, factor…"

"What about it, Meta?" he snapped. "No doubts? Do you think that destruction is the only way to end this war?" "I don'…"

"Just because you know a thing is true in theory, doesn't make it true in fact. The barbaric religions of primitive wo…"

"The crossbows twanged like harps of death."

"I have done more in one day than you all have done since you arrived. I have accomplished this because I am better at…"

"You must realize that living organisms will do anything to survive. Castaways at sea will drink their own urine in th…"

"There are far too many people there for comfort. Birth control came late and is still being fought—if you can possibl…"

"The final product is a man-plant-animal symbiote that is admirably adapted for survival on this disaster world. No em…"

"Their personal policy has become their planetary policy—and that’s never a very smart thing."

"The better you are as a soldier, the worse you are as a human being."