“What's a lightwave ship?""UFO, basically.""Cool," Angela said.”

“The hostile force! The reasone the barrier was established. "Astrophysics, do we know what's causing that?""No, sir," Bruno said cheerfully. "Not a clue".”

“Random Acts of Kindness," he said. "You need some in your life. Everybody does.""No, I don't have much of a rak, but hey, this is the twenty-third century, you can get anything fixed if you have enough money.”

“How you humans survive so much experience is something I shall never understand. To do so much and react to it all in the way you do is as much a curse as a blessing. You never take time to digest and appreciate what happens to you.”

“Are you sure it is trustworthy, Mellanie?" "I'd be dead if it wasn't.""Yes, I suppose that does generate a respectable level of personal confidence.”

“You cannot impose ideologies on people who do not embrace it wholeheartedly.”

“Ego had brought him to this point, that stupid refusal to quit the case, to simply do the job according to procedure and pick up the monthly salary transfer. Now look where it had brought him, sitting right next to a crapping great fusion bomb.”