I tell him there'll be an army waiting for him, and your friend is only concerned with the color of their uniforms. What's this really about? Max shrugged. "A girl." I glared at Max. "Dude. Shut up."

People don't get gentler as they get older but rather, harder.

I truly believe that people do the best they can.

Edmund felt despair eating away at his victory. Why is the world like this? He shivered. Why does it feel so cold, so hard? A smile flickered on John's face, one that was neither happy nor sad. What...

My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.

Everything is a tool - a boot, a sled, a dog - and a hand, an arm, even a man! If it breaks down you throw it away and you march on! It's brutal, yes! And it's ugly. But anything else is sentiment and...

I wanted her body and soul, but body first.

Perhaps there's an innate human emotion inside us all that when we are presented with something we don't understand, we immediately want to kill it.

They say that secrets live at the bottom of a wine bottle. Mama had made it there the night before, slow glass by slow glass, but she'd never spoken a word.

I tried not to stare at his body because I already knew it was good. Instead I focused on his eyes.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Irrationality is the exclusive preserve of humans as among all creatures only we have the power to rationalise, that being the art of packaging patently irrational as apparently rational.

Humans, when you talk to me about them... I more likely see them as an unsolvable unloggable problem... than something else.

What's a man worth without love? $.89 worth of chemicals. Hawkeye Pierce

I think ethical ambivalence is a kind of inoculation, a way of excusing yourself in advance for something you actually want to do. No offense.

Courting is an activity where a man and a woman flaunt their virtues. Dating is an activity where life exposes the other's vices.

Stories are like snapshots, pictures snatched out of time, with clean hard edges. But this was life, and life always begins and ends in a bloody muddle, womb to tomb, just one big mess, a can of worms...

The guy had guts - I had to give him that. Later on I was hoping for a first-hand look at them.

To some people, there is no noise on earth as exciting as the sound of three or four big jet engines rising in pitch, as the plane they are sitting in swivels at the end of the runway and, straining...

Technology would have long ago made privacy impossible, except that this had only made it more precious and desirable - - and in the close confines of starship life, respect for another's privacy had...

The heart is what is important. There is nothing more vulnerable, nothing more corruptible than the human mind; nor is there anything as powerful, steadfast and ennobling.

We were so created to worship God that it is probably embedded in our spiritual DNA itself!

He was, out of all sight {as I remember him}, the nicest boy that ever spun a top or broke a window.

I happen to be partial to humans - most, anyway. Clowns, not so much. Those evil bastards never stop smiling.

Enemies may unite to eliminate a common threat, but never without a wary eye fixed on their ally.

I retreat to my room and lock the door. Lying on my bed, my brain cyclones with thoughts of men and boys and boys and men. All making the wrong choices.

Dualism is the closest human feeling, but it is not necessarily the highest human philosophy. On the contrary, all great philosophies have been monistic. Man experiences the world dualistically, but...

If I had only one sermon to preach, it would be a sermon against Pride. The more I see of existence, and especially of modern practical and experimental existence, the more I am convinced of the...

Zarah, you do know that we are supposed to be a graceful species, don't you?