I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!

Have you ever heard the phrase, Living well is the best revenge?" "Where I come from, someone's head in a bag is generally considered the best revenge

You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.

History does not so much repeat as echo, I suppose.

On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS

I know girls who pine for it. They like to play dress-up and pretend being Vor ladies of old, rescued from menace by romantic Vor youths. For some reason they never play 'dying in childbirth', or 'vomiting your guts out from the red dysentery', or 'weaving till you go blind and crippled from arthritis and dye poisoning', or 'infanticide'. Well, they do die romantically of disease sometimes, but somehow it's always an illness that makes you interestingly pale and everyone sorry and doesn't involve losing bowel control.

Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.