I Consider Violence An Uneconomical Way Of

There Are No Happy Endings In History, Only Crisis Points That Pass.

I Made Up My Mind Long Ago To Follow One Cardinal Rule In All My Writing — To Be Clear.

The Energy Requirements For Interstellar Travel Are So Great That It Is Inconceivable To Me That Any Creatures Piloting Their Ships Across The Vast Depths Of Space Would Do So Only In Order To Play Games With Us Over A Period Of Decades. If They Want To Make Contact, They Would Make Contact; If Not, They Would Save Their Energy And Go Elsewhere.

If You Were To Insist I Was A Robot, You Might Not Consider Me Capable Of Love In Some Mystic Human Sense, But You Would Not Be Able To Distinguish My Reactions From That Which You Would Call Love So What Difference Would It Make?

It Is Well-known That The Friend Of A Conqueror Is But The Last Victim.