If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.

The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.

We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.

A true Vor, Miles told himself severely, does not bury his face in his liegewoman's breasts and cry--even if he is at a convenient height for it.