When one is the agent of order and civilisation in the universe, one doesn't stoop to negotiate. Especially with nonhumans.

Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It's just easier to handle those with emotions.

Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings.

To be Radchaai is to be civilised.

Let every act be just, and proper, and beneficial.

Good necessitates evil and the two sides of that disk are not always clearly marked.

If you're going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one.

What, after all, was the point of civilisation if not the well-being of citizens?

It's the people without the money and the power, who desperately want to live, for those people small things aren't small at all.

Things happen the way they happen because the world is the way it is.

Surely it isn't illegal here to complain about young people these days? How cruel. I had thought it a basic part of human nature, one of the few universally practiced human customs.

Make no mistake about it, no matter how kind, meek, humble and soft your giving heart is — you are a warrior!

If my mom sees you here, she’ll ---“ “Paper the walls with my innards while the innocents watch?

Every story is informed by a worldview.

The right way to pray then is any way that allows us to communicate with God.

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live.

I like playing smart, savvy, sexy women -- because it's so not me!

I love being on stage if I'm not on a set. If I'm at home, I'm usually in my office editing or reconstructing my website or whatever it may be. I just love putting creativity into a performance.

I live to succeed, not to please you or anyone else.

All lives have an equal value.

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.