Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast.

Even light, which travels so fast it takes most races thousands of years to realize that it travels at all, takes time to journey between the stars.

It's part of the shape of the Universe. I only have to talk to somebody and they begin to hate me.

Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next.

Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does.

I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas, cultures, and systems of thought we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word freedom means than I see much evidence of in America. To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that in Europe we're probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.

And so the Universe ended.