Fathers and daughters don’t communicate that well even when alien languages and secret conspiracies aren’t involved. - Joe Haldeman

“The problem with most people,” Samuel cut in, “isn’t that they don’t know a lot of things. Just that most of what they know is wrong.”

Most aliens in science fiction aren’t truly alien, and that’s not because science fiction writers lack imagination, but because the purpose of an alien in a story is usually to provide a meaningful distortion of human nature.

Big money seeks out the company of its own, for purposes of reproduction.