Relations were never good (how comfortable can you really be with a race that sees you as a nutritious part of a complete breakfast).

Damn real live people, getting in the way of peaceful ideals.

You can’t afford anthropomorphic biases when some of the aliens most like us would rather make human hamburgers than peace.

Trust your weapon, it is almost certainly smarter than you are. Remember this and you may yet live.

What is it like when you lose someone you love?" Jane asked."You die, too. And you wait around for your body to catch up.

Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us. I miss meaning something to someone, having that part of being human.

I'm going to go pee. If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.

The universe isn't going to be conquered by legions of geriatrics. No offense.

The universe is a big place. Maybe we're not in the best neighborhood.

What we don't know can't hurt us.

Colonization is the key to our race’s survival. It’s as simple as that. We must colonize or be closed off and contained by other races.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

I've always been stimulated by the sense of challenge.

Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity becomes more and more extraordinary.

Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly, that you feel you could die of it!

We line our lives with beautiful things to create a cushion of stability: the illusion of a cohesive past, the promise of an unclouded future.

Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

God takes men's hearty desires and will, instead of the deed, where they have not power to fulfill it; but he never took the bare deed instead of the will.

Love is the only unifier in the world. We've all felt exactly the same way. It'll make you crazy and it'll make you ecstatic and that's true for everyone.

When I find a golf course or a restaurant or a market that I like, that's pretty much exclusively where I go.