One may be partially owned by another or others by having to sell one’s labor or talents to somebody with the means to buy them. In
You judged your own attractiveness - physically, psychologically and in terms of status - then you knew your level and could either raise or lower your sights accordingly, risking rejection but with t...
Which would you rather have, Lattens?’ UrLeyn asked his son. ‘Good giants and monsters, or bad ones?’ ‘Bad ones!’ Lattens shouted. He drew his wooden sword from its scabbard. ‘So I can cut their heads...
There is always meaning. Or at least all things show a disturbing tendency to have meaning ascribed to them when intelligent creatures are present. It’s just that there’s no final Meaning, with a capi...
The right place; that was what he was looking for. The right place. Place was all important, place meant everything. Take this rock…Take you, rock, he said. He squinted at it.Ah yes, here we have the...
That was the Dependency Principle; that you could never forget where your Off switches were located, even if it was somewhere tiresome.
Hey, Wrobik; cheer up, yeah? You're going to shoot down a fucking starship. It'll be an experience.
He thought the common people must be remarkably stupid if they believed all this nonsense.
He had to treat him as the maniac he obviously was. The fact that his insanity was dressed in religious trappings meant nothing.
Empathize with stupidity and you’re halfway to thinking like an idiot, muttered
All societies are like that; the damping hand of the old and the firebrand youth together.
Bob-nodded toward the open module door. After you.
[B]ecause of all his previous attempts to integrate with the rest of society and what he had learned about himself through them - he wanted to be who he was, not the person he would become if he lost...
You cannot choose not to have the politics you do; they are not some separate set of entities somehow detachable from the rest of your being; they are a function of your existence.
Yes, I said. Temudjin Oh. I'd long got used to the fact that my Mongolian-extraction surname could cause some amusement amongst English speakers determined to extract a toll of discomfiture from someb...
To fully appreciate the beauty of a weapon was to admit to a kind of shortsightedness close to blindness, to confess to a sort of stupidity. The weapon was not itself; nothing was solely itself. The w...
The point, of course, is that the people who spent days and sweated buckets could also have taken an aircraft to the summit if all they’d wanted was to absorb the view. It is the struggle that they cr...
She wanted to tell him that it was all okay, that there was nothing to worry about, that the universe was a terrible, utterly uncaring place and then people came along and added suffering and injustic...
People were always sorry. Sorry they had done what they had done, sorry they were doing what they were doing, sorry they were going to do what they were going to do; but they still did whatever it is....
One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve.