“The 1143-year-long war hand begun on false pretenses and only because the two races were unable to communicate.Once they could talk, the first question was 'Why did you start this thing?' and the answer was 'Me?”

“Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.”

“Saul's vitals were not human, but familiar:he never told me he was from another world:I never told him I was from his future. ”

“I die. O my hair falls out and my flesh rots and my bones are cracked by the hungry ta!a'an. He drops me behind him all around the forest and nothing will grow where his excrement from my marrow falls. As the years pass the forest dies from the poison of my remains. The soil washes into the sean and poisons the fish and all die. O the embarrassment.”

“There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.”

“Sitting here in a bar with an asexual cyborg who is probably the only other normal person on the whole goddamned planet.”

“Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.”