Nature has become something new. It is ours now, truly. And if our creation devours us, how poetic will that be?

An untrampled scorpion troubles no one.

Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.

The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.

Suicide is not something I owe you or yours.

Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.

Killing isn't free. It takes something out of you every time you do it. You get their life; they get a piece of your soul. It's always a trade.

I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.

The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.

The future looks a bit bleak to me.

But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out.

God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance.

Like soil, the quality of your mind decides the quality and quantity of ideas your mind can produce.

The Apocalypse . . . a storm warning that carries a booming jolt of truth—Trouble ahead

I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist.

I just don't think [Payne] was the right time to do it, maybe. It was timing, not so much that it was executed wrong.

If Atomes are as small, as small can bee,They must in quantity of Matter all agree

I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

Every cleric must obey the Pope, even if he commands what is evil; for no one may judge the Pope.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

It takes leaders to grow other leaders.