“Once upon a time I was such a good liar; I could talk the fish right into my mouths.”

“I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.”

“Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.”

“They had been at the center of something vast, but as usual with the affairs of the Powers, no one knew quite what had happened, nor the result of the strivings."A Fire Upon the Deep”

“All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.”

“[The Universe] does not care, and even with all our science there are some disasters that we can not avert. All evil and good is petty before nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that can not be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.”

“Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.”