“And for the first time, I pity her, because when she says love, I think she really means it. For her, this is love. This is what she does to someone she loves. And I wonder if I am any better, beca...”

“The monsters don't live in the belly of the world like they all say. The monsters live inside of us. We make the monsters.”

“There is nothing I fear more than someone without memory. A person without memory is free to do anything she likes.”

“The secret to leadership is not to be a particularly intelligent person. It is to surround oneself with those far smarter than oneself. And try not to kill them.”

“War makes monsters of us all. But what happens to those of us who no longer wish to be monsters?”

“I'm not trying to be mean,' Casamir says.'Intent doesn't always matter.”

“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.”