We have a hostage to pay ransom for in the morning so we can use him as ransom when we meet other kidnappers in the afternoon.

Can the child who is Dell; be the outer emoodiment of man's quest to save himself? To cure himself?...Or, to "be" himself?

I felt sure that [Oyarsa] was what we call "good," but I wasn't sure whether I liked "goodness" so much as I had supposed.

The power of the Dark Side cannot be dispersed among the masses. It must be concentrated in the few who are worthy of the honor.

‘Foo Kyu’ is just a very unfortunate cultural coincidence.""Just think about his poor son, ‘Foo Kyu Two.’

Could we possible manage the next phase of human history without first dealing with this penchant for dehumanizing the adversary?

I see you have returned, my love; and your mood is as dark as ever. Did your soldiers not adore you to your complete satisfaction?

I can almost see the processes whirrling clunkily in his singularix, as his excited nervous system battled with his logic circuits.

For some the label sci-fi is just a shortand for science fiction, an alternative to sf gesturing at ... you know, that stuff we like.

Tiago had heard of what some called the 'human database' or 'omnilogos', but nothing could have prepared him for this.

If I could create something that is even minutely close to a small percentile of a genius as Cloud Atlas, I shall deem my life worthy!

Asleep you can experience many hours whilst only a few waking moments have passed. This is why dreams are an ideal platform for training.

I still have the scars from when they captured me and beat me in the middle of the street.""You don't get scars.""Emotional scars then.

Prices of semicolons, plot devices, prologues and inciting incidents continued to fall yesterday, lopping twenty points off the TomJones Index.

You...are...a...fridge...with wings,' Fang ground out, punching an Eraser hard with every word. 'We're...freaking...ballet...dancers.