“She could tell he was heading toward a bad place. She had seen him go there often enough, knew he had shortcuts he could take to get there in no time.”

“He continued to see inevitable events from the past as avoidable, long after they'd taken their course.”

“I guess what I'm sayin' is, if you want to give Jules a job, be very careful. Why be careful? Marnes asked.Marck gazed up at the confusion of pipes and wires overhead.'Cause she'll damn well do it....”

“It was a sad loss, this illusion of importance, a humbling blow.”

“Hed only ever seen a gun once, a smaller one on the hip of that old deputy, a gun hed always figured was more for show. He stuffed a fistful of deadly rounds in his pocket, thinking how each one co...”

“I guess what I'm sayin' is, if you want to give Jules a job, be very careful.” “Why be careful?” Marnes asked.Marck gazed up at the confusion of pipes and wires overhead.“'Cause she'll damn well do...”

“When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well.”

“If it happens that the human race doesn't make it, then the fact that we were here once will not be altered, that once upon a time we peopled this astonishing blue planet, and wondered intelligentl...”

“I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world, you realize that people are nasty, mean creatures. They're worse than z...”

“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.”