There's no record in the history of the Galaxy of any society being so foolish as to use nuclear explosions as a weapon of war. - Isaac Asimov

It is my own experience ... that commentators are far more ingenious at finding meaning than authors are at inserting it.

The Time Vault was filled; filled far beyond the available seating capacity, and men lined the back of the room, three deep.

Assassination isn't the way out, Devers. I once tried it, under provocation, when I was twenty – but it solved nothing. I removed a villain from Siwenna, but not the Imperial yoke; and it was the Imperial yoke and not the villain that mattered.