Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.

Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

If eternity had a season, it would be midsummer. Autumn, winter, spring are all change and passage, but at the height of summer the year stands poised. It's only a passing moment, but even as it passes the heart knows it cannot change.

He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safer for children to grow up in.

To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.