"Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery."
- Joe Haldeman
"One rash person in the right place and earth could be a sterile cinder in seconds, but that's been more-or-less true for a century."
"The brain isn't very much like a computer, although it doesn't do a bad job, considering that it's built by unskilled labor and programmed more by pure chance than anything else."
"Saul's vitals were not human, but familiar:he never told me he was from another world:I never told him I was from his future. "
"He's asleep in the harbor, disguised as dog shit."
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"A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers."
"Most of human history had been industry versus nature, with industry winning."
"You can't make a date in death's dateless night."