I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed

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

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.

The sum of the crowd's IQ was far below that of its most modest single member. Mobs have passions, not brains.

Artists recognize other artists as soon as the pencil begins to move.

Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony.

If our god's work is to be done in our time, we must do it ourselves.