David Zindell

"That was the true terror of war, that often one had to accept danger and simply wait to live or die."

"The secret of life is more life."

"All men are warriors. And life for everything in our universe is nothing but war."

"But it is the nature of life that no emotion is meant to last forever..."

"Life moved ever outward into infinite possibilities and yet all things were perfect and finished in every single moment, their end attained."

"Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise."

"In an infinite universe, every point in space-time is the center."

"Truth, like a woman, must be wooed and won - and this only through the purity of mind and the heart’s deep love."