You can't keep a cool head when you're drowning in love. You just trash around a lot and scream, and wear yourself out.

But my dreaming self refuses to be consoled. It continues to wander, aimless, homeless, alone. It cannot be convinced of its safety by any evidence drawn from my waking life.

In the animal world individuals cheat, as do we.

As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter.

Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.

Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain.

... Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.