Sluka shook her head. "We're talking about them in the past tense, and we never even discussed them in the present. It's like their only reason for existing was so they could die.

Nightside, cities glistened in chains, and a spray of tinkertoy habitats girdled the planet. Gossamer starbridges reached from the equator towards orbit.

I think I've reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level.

Victory loses its meaning without the memory of what you've vanquished.

As the old saying went, the Manhattan Project wasn't built in a day. Or was that Rome? Something to do with Earth, anyway.

A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.

Enjoy it, kid. Enjoy feeling that you can make a difference.' Floyd flashed him a smile. 'It won't last for ever.

You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse.

Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves.

It’s the people who don’t worry—those who never have any doubts that what they’re doing is good and right—they’re the ones that cause the problems.

Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.

Not only is happiness not money, it is not even like money.

Of course it's true: the public want to see young people - young people are the people who go to the cinema. It's a sad fact of life, but you've got to accept it and not whine about it.

On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves.

Not every relationship can be altered to fit.

One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.

To leave this world a better person, and for me to not be the only one who knows it.

The will of a majority is the will of a rabble. Progressive democracy is incompatable with liberty.

I love playing villains. When you're a bad guy, you get to do many real nasty things. It's a lot of fun.

Mystery such as is given of God is beyond the power of human penetration, yet not in opposition to it.

Life is a fight. Don’t let it overwhelm you. Adapt, and combat every situation it throws at you.