This is the Speaker for the Dead? Judging someone by appearances?" "Maybe I've fallen in love with Grego." "You've always been a sucker for people who pee on you.

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

Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

it was all your genes that made us geniuses, mom. said peter. we sure didn't get any from dad. i heard that. father said, not looking up from the news that was being displayed on the table while he ate it would've been wasted if you hadn't

She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as a woman judge men, not on the strength of their arguments, and not in their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, their strength of soul, their compassion, and... ah, this above all... their conversation.

Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail.