The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth.

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

It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.

It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.

A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.

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.

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