But I'm going to try to tell the truth. Except for the parts I'm leav­ing out, because there's still stuff I'm just not going to tell you. Get used to it.

He didn't look insane or inhuman. He did look uncooperative.

Friends you will have need of, for in you two worlds meet. There is no one on both sides with you, so you must learn to take your own counsel; and not to fear what is strange, if you know it also to be true. —Luthe

You are attempting to be logical, I suspect, and logic has little to do with government, and nothing at all to do with military administration.

It seems to me further, that it is very odd that fate should leave so careful a trail, and spend so little time preparing the one that must follow it.

When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship.

Tell me who you are. You need not tell me your name. Names have power, even human ones. Tell me where you live and what you do with your living.