An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.

As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what “just living” might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.

I am a creature of chemicals.

Once you get a brother, you don’t give him up easy.

When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.

I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.

...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience. I hope you're right, because in many ways this is the best audience in the world to write for. They're open-minded and intelligent. They want to think as well as feel, understand as well as dream. Above all, they want to be led into places that no one has ever visited before. It's a privilege to tell stories to these readers, and an honour when they applaud the tale you tell.