We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself a dictator, and died for it.

In a way, being a Mormon prepares you to deal with science fiction, because we live simultaneously in two very different cultures. The result is that we all know what it's like to be strangers in a strange land. It's not just a coincidence that there are so many effective Mormon science fiction writers. We don't regard being an alien as an alien experience. But it also means that we're not surprised when people don't understand what we're saying or what we think.

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.

A weak King must be what other Kings have been; a strong King is himself, and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed.

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