The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win.

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.

Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.

We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.

I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.

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

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.