"I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humourous, and continued from there. I turned my …"

"I retaliated by visiting on them all manner of mischief, but I concluded, after some centuries of chronic relapsing o…"

"Imaro exploded. "Why do men fight like starving lions over yellow metal and let valuable cattle go?""

"You have to be rich to live forever."

"“You’re an atheist,” I said. “No, I believe in God. I believe God exists. I had an experience, I had that vision, and…"

"Lambs are sacrificed but rats survive."

"The totality of human endeavor is nothing when set against the stars."

"There was no center, no reason. Courtney’s death was random, banal viciousness inflicted by one organism upon another…"

"For all practical purposes, wheat is civilization. It produces what we euphemistically call the staff of life, a staf…"

"All my novels are about moral questions ... Most of us want to believe in something: politics, religion, saving the w…"