Doesn't it make you wonder about your own sexual identity, not to mention your sanity, that the two women you love are, respectively, a virtual woman existing only in the transient ansible connections between computers and a woman whose soul is in fact that of a man who is the husband of your mother?

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.

If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.

I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

The most evil creatures dont desire the destruction of everythingthey only desire to exploit it for themselves.

The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.

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