By your eighteenth birthday you're supposed to know. They're supposed to tell you. Splicer. True Born. Laster.

I stare at the long, almost elegant thinness of the wrist bone jutting out from a heap of flesh and cloth. All that separates us, that poor woman and me, is an accident of birth.

What's a Laster? A dead man.

In Dominion they have a saying about the Lasters. Those who can, Splice. Everyone else comes in Last.

International sport is war without shooting.

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

The best performances, are those that can be performed once.

I'm very, very low-key in general.

No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually ... I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.

Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.

Ethics may be defined as the obligations of morality.

Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top.

I'm always glad that other people are way smarter about my poems than I am.

Don't tell me about the problems - I make the problems.