“He held her hand and shook his head. "They're inside, part of us by now. They are us. Where can we escape?”

“Thought moves like a dissociation of leaves across a lawn in a breeze.”

“He had performed this ritual before, getting into trouble and then coming to his mother, uneasy and uncertain, not sure precisely what sort of trouble he was in. With uncanny regularity, she had se...”

“It is the bullet you don’t hear that gets you.”

“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.”