"She was a student of history, valued the lessons of it. The worst atrocities began with half-measures, with apologies, compromising with the wrong side, shrinking from what had to be done."

“Poisoning rarely happens in a well-managed kitchen.”

“For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.”

“Things whispered here, and the trees muttered with the wind and perhaps with other things. Men knew the place was old, old as the world, and they never made peace with it.”

“Inevitably the party trying to resolve a matter had to contend with the party most willing to exploit it.”

“At this point I ceased argument with Lt. Goforth and shot him in the belly.”

“What happened this far remote would have little political impact on Earth. What the visual media could not carry into living rooms, the general public could not long remain exercised about. Statistically, a majority of the electorate could not or did not read complicated issues; no pictures, no news; no news, no event.”