One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.

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

Two sides of the same coin, but which side is which?

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

The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally.

That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as they like, and the surplus population should be sent to other worlds, to spread mankind so far across the galaxy that no disaster, no invasion could ever threaten the human race with annihilation. "The most noble title any child can have," Demosthenes wrote, "is Third.

The difference between science fiction and fantasy … is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees.