My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost.

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.