Honor does not have to be defended.

The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.

There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the question of whether there is a creator to a higher standard?

Do you think it's possible that things that seem to be discrete in three dimensions might all be part of the same bigger object in four dimensions? ...What if humanity- that collective noun we so often employ- really is, at a higher level, a singular noun? What it what we perceive in three dimensions as seven billion individual human beings are really all just aspects of one giant being?

A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic.

Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.

Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.