The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst possible thing I can do to *this* guy?' And then do it.

When I go down into the ground at last, as God is my judge, I pray my best-beloved may have better to say of me than, "He didn't hit me."

The good face pain. But the great? They embrace it.

If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?

I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe." "'Know thyself.'" "We try, sir.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

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