No lifetime is long enough for those who wish to create, Raul. Or for those who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.

At that moment I would have welcomed spider-rats nibbling on my toes about as much as the idea of chatting with a missionary priest.

The Hegemony had known how to treat cancer, but most of the gene-tailoring knowledge and technology had been lost after the Fall.

Youth is wasted on the young.

No, but I imagine there's a gun tucked away somewhere on your body. And I know what you can do with that, hotshot."He took a step toward her. "With what, sweetheart? With the gun? Or the body?

Only two things can stop Tiger — injury or a bad marriage.

I've got a right to knock down anybody holding a bat.

Your poems are of interest to mankind; your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to you.

I am sometimes asked, 'Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?' I answer: 'I am working at the roots.'

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.

My mother married three times. My dad is... I don't really have one. I mean, he does exist, but I have zero relationship with him.

A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded.

Just because I'm presented life in a certain way doesn't mean I do all these things. It's just something I choose to express.