But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: to see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost.

The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.

Quim," she said, "don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but a map.

The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.

We have to go. I'm almost happy here.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.