There are no truer choices than those made in crisis, choices made without judgment.

How much change can a person absorb before everything loses meaning Living for its own sake isn't life. People need meaning as much as they need air.

The true knowledge is not in the things, but in finding the connections between the things.

You want to know what a robot's designed for. And if it's doing something outside the scope of what it's made to do, you should be very suspicious.

It's dangerous to be people-blind.

I was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type 'chokeholds' and watch scenes where martial artists choke each other out. You can hear what noises they make when they go unconscious, see how their bodies flop and everything. YouTube is amazing for the more detailed stuff.

It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees.