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.

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.

a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

'I could kill you like this,' Peter whispered. 'Just press and press until you're dead'.

The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have.