Manitoba... Not sure what to do about them. Restock the province with megafauna and encourage tourism, I think. How quickly can we breed back the saber-toothed cats?

After enough concussions the head injuries blur together.

"Gun-wielding recluse gunned down by local police" isn't the epitaph I want. I am hoping for "Witnesses reported the sound up to two hundred kilometers away" or "Last body part finally located".

You may have trouble getting permission to aero or lithobrake asteroids on Earth.

I believe that I have now experienced the lifetime maximum exposure to bottom spanking in fantasy novels.

[Elizabeth Moon's] antagonists are always evil moustache-twirlers. She could write a book about a golf open and the main rival to the hero would turn out to have clubs made from compressed kittens.

english doesn't borrow from other languages. english follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.

Never bring a gun to a fight where the other guy has a time-machine and tomorrow's newspapers.

I can't help but notice that everytime I fly somewhere, other people's planes fall out of the sky.

Most of my scars are not fire-related and I no longer say "I know what I am doing" at critical moments.

Deadly nightshade is the only plant I have ever been able to get to grow for me.

Love is a longing to belong, to be beloved.

They were daughters of the sky. Luck belonged to them— never bad, often good, sometimes hard.

Do not too late to tell me, I love you.

That's what we're trained to do.

Clever, witty and absorbing, Amortality is a much-needed anatomy of our profound malaise about ageing. Its charms will never fade.

People say if bees die out, the world would end apparently. Now, I don't know if that's true, if that's some bee enthusiast who managed to write a good document and people believe this.

Come, let us hasten to a higher plane, Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn, Their indices bedecked from one to _ n, Commingled in an endless Markov chain!

He went, ever on the move, with the slow, shuffling step of wandering beggars who are nowhere at home.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.

I want the ability to monitor high-tech communications among far-flung terrorists. I want to be able to have our people learn their plans before they strike. That's the key.