Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.

Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at ease before his own hearth.

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

Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.

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

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.