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

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.

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

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.

But besides that I was of an unforgiving disposition from my birth, slow to take offense, slower to forget it, and now incensed both against my companion and myself.

I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.

Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice.

As time goes by the memories of sitting on the edge of a bed and reading aloud with your kid are going to be very meaningful in your own mental scrapbook.

I'm all for whatever it takes to get wherever you need to get with a character, as long as you don't wipe it on me.

People who don't want to weather some of the rough periods miss out on something better.

I do love I know not what; Sometimes this, and sometimes that.

If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.

People are so scared to really voice who they are. They want to be politically correct. Just scared to see what other people's perceptions are.

The acme of freedom from wealth is to desire to be possessionless even as others desire to possess.