I'm so sorry. I think I'm just tired." The socially accepted excuse for being mental.

You're only as old as you feel.

...I suppose clichés wouldn't be clichés if they weren't based on some sort of tediously predictable truth.

And what will they do to you when you have told them this story?' Esca said very simply, 'They will kill me.' 'I am sorry, but I do not think much of that plan.' Marcus said.

Vibration is the core of the spirit. It is the breath of life.

But it was smell that carried memory.

It's kind of sad, the brighter they burn the sooner they die. They're beautiful while they last

More than 100 people are involved in a transplant operation... and we can't waste time and resources if there is a chance the caretakers aren't up for an awesome responsibility.

People do not change, they are merely revealed.

Mars could very well be a staging location for the resources of the asteroid belt. We have to learn how to get a payback somewhere, but it's beyond Mars that the real payoff will come from minerals.

Do things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind.

He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.

I think a very important aspect of language has to do with the establishment of social relations and interactions. Often, this is described as communication. But that is very misleading, I think.