Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world that no one else but him has ever visited.

Grief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.

I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss.

A duel is just two murders who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.

Science isn't done by consensus. It's done by rigorous testing.

Human: That's stupid. Isn't there grass on both sides?