Don't lie to me! Don't seem so normal when I know you have cut yourself off from me in your heart! If you can put on our affectionate closeness like a mask, then I'll never be able to take joy in it again.

I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.

. . . All these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world, not with my eyes only, but also with their own.

It's what I was born for, isn't it? If I don't go, why am I alive?

You killed more people than anybody in history." "Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.

The most evil creatures dont desire the destruction of everythingthey only desire to exploit it for themselves.

Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story writer learns to include only the most essential information.