“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.”

“A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.”

“Above all, he loathed men who beat women; for, real men didnt exercise their strength on frail creatures, they joined the army and put Shazarias enemies in their graves.”

“Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?”

“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”

“The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.”

“Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life...”

“Tell her I'm sorry I sold the diamond, eh?" Sammy said. "I broke my promise. When she disappeared in Alaska... ah, so long ago, I finally used that diamond, moved to Texas as I always dreamed. I st...”

“Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.”

“In the future, churches, mosques, synagogues and temples, all of them will be museums! The intellectual progression of humanity will necessitate such a drastic and dramatic change in the human hist...”