“Everything is so soft here,' he said, 'so easy...' 'I know”

“He rubbed his head again. 'Five years is longer than it sounds. So much longer.”

“This is the biggest lot of abolitionist trash I ever saw.No it isnt, I said. That book wasnt even written until a century after slavery was abolished.Then why the hell are they still complaining ab...”

“Then, somehow, I got caught up in one of Kevin's World War II books - a book of excerpts from the recollections of concentration camp survivors. Stories of beatings, starvation, filth, disease, tor...”

“Read every day and learn from what you read.”

“I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.”

“Why does God ask traumatized people to look at the trauma they initiated through their sin and rebellion? For the same reason God asks us to: it is the truth, and we are free only when we lift up t...”

“We realized that among us, among all the races, we had a staggering fund of knowledge and of techniques - that working together, by putting together all this knowledge and capability, we could arri...”

“It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.”

“Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.”