I just assume I'm not invisible. I assume I'm wearing fluorescent clothes, and there's a million-dollar bounty going to the first driver who manages to hit me. And I ride on that assumption.

You should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake.

The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different.

Clearly Mr. Drkh has had a long career of being the weirdest person in any given room, but he's about to go down in flames.

They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.

If the item of stolen property had been anything other than a book, it would have been confiscated. But a book is different - it is not just a material possession but the pathway to an enlightened mind, and thence to a well-ordered society.

The best way to know someone is to have a conversation with them.