Ryk E. Spoor Quotes

In safety and in security, in peril and plague, in victory and vengeance, may your course be ever your own.

But you know there’s always that nagging set of voices out there worried that someone is doing something bad with that freedom—and of course the problem is, sometimes they’re right.

I am a scientist. I do not believe in gods or demons.

Though I hope we get out more, the Arena looks fascinating and all this talk-talk-talk is making me itchy, and no one's tried to kill the captain yet!
Orphan gave a subdued buzz-chuckle. "One would almost think you want her to be attacked."
"Well, of course! What use being a bodyguard if you never actually get to do any WORK?"

Hmph. Just remembered that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent—
Yeah, Duquesne interrupted with a grin, because the competent resort to violence MUCH sooner, before it’s too late!

But there has to be an alternative.
"Why does there have to be one, Captain Austin?" Sethrik asked quietly. "Often the universe does not give us choices."

I cannot help but think that anyone who wants power for those reasons really is not the person I want to have it.

Well, like many fanatic creeds, if you accept the basic postulates, you can make a twisted sense out of anything.

His hand contracted on the odd carven rod, a tiny thing that glittered with hints of lights and circuits and, at the same time, bone and gems, a wand constructed by an engineer, or a transmitter assembled by a shaman.

They have certain rather insular attitudes which makes it difficult to maintain any long-term cooperation. It is not pleasant to work with someone who thinks of your entire species as a waste of resources.

People don’t mind poking into other people’s business—they just don’t want other people poking into theirs.

Your problem, you pea-brained, overbearing, pompous crayfish, is that you think you have any idea of what you’re dealing with.

When people can have pretty much whatever they want for the asking, and when privacy and security can be assured by the same technologies...well, pretty soon no one needs a government for much.

Maybe you should’ve been more careful, but hindsight’s perfect and we aren’t.

So," Simon said slowly, looking around at the others, "the Leader of Humanity is going to risk herself on a ship with a sometimes devious ally, traveling to some secret destination in the Deeps of the Arena, to confront some nameless force where there won't even be a Sky Gate to help us return if things go wrong?
He stood and lifted his glass. "Sign me up, Captain!