Science fiction is not prescriptive

You can't hide the thunderbolt. When it hits you, everybody can see it. Christ, man, don't be ashamed of it, some men pray for the thunderbolt. You're a very lucky fellow. - Calo

The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on.

If you meet an angel, you will have not peace, but a fever.

The awkwardness of getting reward in a well-off society is that the creation of appetite often requires undoing the work of satisfying appetite.

If any overarching conclusion emerges from the Afghan and Iraq Wars (and from their Israeli equivalents), it's this: victory is a chimera.

The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.

I am basically a feminist. I think that women can do anything they decide to do.

I used to write as an escape. There's no escape. There's just me sending my voice into the dark, waiting for an echo.

Do I need men? I don't think it's about needing men. It's about love.

Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.