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

This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.

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.

Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

There was no limit to what one man might do, if he gave all, and held back nothing.

Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving.