In challenging a kzin, a simple scream of rage is sufficient. You scream and you leap.

The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.

It is a cardinal sin to bore the reader.

I do not believe they've run out of surprises.

I am trying to prevent a bloodbath. Is that clear enough for you? I'm trying to prevent a civil war that could kill half the people in this world.

Hopeless causes are the only ones worth fighting for. The fight for the taxpayer is the most hopeless of them all.

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.