What about it, Meta? he snapped. No doubts? Do you think that destruction is the only way to end this war? I don't know, she said. I can't be sure. F… - Harry Harrison

The human race is gregarious, I knew that even though I had been denying it for years. I was going to keep on doing the loneliest job in the universe — only I wasn't going to be doing it alone.

With a mental effort, he grabbed hold of his thoughts and braked them to a stop. There was something new here, factors he hadn't counted on. He kept reassuring himself there was an explanation for everything, once you had your facts straight.

What finally decided me was what happened in that village in Tibet; we had airdropped in during the night to get between the Indians and the Chinese. I had never seen poverty or disease like that and I wondered why guns were the only thing we could bring them.