“You cant afford anthropomorphic biases when some of the aliens most like us would rather make human hamburgers than peace.”

“Damn real live people, getting in the way of peaceful ideals.”

“For as much as I hate the cemetery, Ive been grateful its here, too. I miss my wife. Its easier to miss her at a cemetery, where shes never been anything but dead, than to miss her in all the place...”

“Trust your weapon, it is almost certainly smarter than you are. Remember this and you may yet live.”

“What is it like when you lose someone you love?" Jane asked."You die, too. And you wait around for your body to catch up.”

“Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us. I miss meaning something to someone, having that part of being human.”

“The elasticity of our dreams can take us to unspoken worlds, but our innate horror of the unknown is what weighs us down. Fight it.Travel to the isolated coils of smoldering dust trapped in our dus...”

“Life is nothing but a few ecstatic dancing atoms.”

“Human beings are nothing but intellectually organized closely interconnected interestingly and independently functioning trillions of atoms. We manipulate these atoms by our thoughts. At the same t...”

“Ex-slaves, in large part, shared a different economic vision. They were "always on the move," searching for family, denying their labor to "dishonest or oppressive employers," and asserting their i...”

“White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there has been a steady undercurrent of mutual admiration, an intermin...”

“But lets not forget the Jew. Anybody that gives even a just criticism of the Jew is instantly labeled anti-Semite. The Jew cries louder than anybody else if anybody criticizes him. You can tell the...”