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

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.

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.

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

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.

Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free.

I was able to take that first step to freedom.

A writer is simply one who writes words, Even if just 1 person reads it your work, or a 100, or 1million or 100, 000 You are a writer.

Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

Sometimes, instead of going down the road less taken, you just charge down the beaten path.

Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

The truth of the matter is we don't understand our women; we blame on them and it's all our fault.

In the '90s, indie movies could get financing, because financers gave money straight to directors... Now it's a different system. Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system.

A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.

When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.