The love of violence is an aspect of our humanity. Even the weak wish to be strong primarily so they can wield the whip.

Fate and victory shift ... now this way, now that way -- like a line of unarmored men under a hail of enemy arrows.

There is no doubt that I have discovered the ultimate in stagnant human societies. The Bikura have realized the human dream of immortality and have paid for it with their humanity and their immortal souls.

Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.

Human beings have only that confusing mass of chemically driven neurological storage to rely on. They're all subjective and emotion-tinged. How can they trust any of their memories?

We are not the only avatars of humanity. Once our computing machines achieved self-consciousness, they became part of this design.

Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are more boring to listen to or read about.