“Sanity is over-rated. It lacks color.”

“Whats more insane? Hearing imaginary voices? Or not hearing the real ones?”

“Guns are not the problem. The species is the problem.”

“We dont go in for that psychodynamic stuff around here. Those guys will talk you to death, clean out your bank account while they are doing it, and then invite you to come back and express your inn...”

“God exists. He has one wicked since of humor, and right now hes having a grand old time punking the planet.”

“I killed a couple of people, Scooter said. Wanna play cards?”

“Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms ...”

“It's like a memorial to Atlantis or Lyonesse: these are the stone buoys that mark a drowned world.”

“Lord Tierney was furious. But when he saw how his sister had suffered, his anger shifted instead toward Rome. If it werent for this new menace on the horizon, he thundered, Id declare war on those ...”

“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.”