In the end--when all else is dust--loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith--true faith--was trusting in that love.

War must never be a condition but, rather, a temporary scourge which we suffer as a child does a fever, knowing that health follows the long night of pain and that peace is health.

It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being evil.

The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.

I know what cancer was. How is it like humankind?" Sek Hardeen's perfectly modulated, softly accented tones showed a hint of agitation. "We have spread out through the galaxy like cancer cells through a living body, Duré. We multiply without thought to the countless life forms that must die or be pushed aside so that we may breed and flourish. We eradicate competing forms of intelligent life.

All of our lives are governed by a certain degree of faith in bullshit.