Love is finding that the things you like best about yourself are not in you at all, but in the person who completes you

Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.

The Buggers have finally, finally learned that we humans value each and every individual human life. But they've learned this lesson just in time for it to be hopelessly wrong — for we humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our own lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the trenches and charge the entrenched enemy and die like maggots under a blowtorch. We strap bombs on our bodies and blow ourselves up in the midst of our enemies. We are, when the cause is sufficient, insane.

If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow.

And yet.. even if you had been right, it would only have been by accident. A broken clock is right two times a day.

In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.

We were all fated to die, and so it is good that at least we can be sure our deaths today might bring about a good end, might make the world a better place.