That's the trouble with living so damned long," Michael said. "Soured relationships last for ever. - Stephen Baxter

Men thought of war—always the next one—as a great cleansing, as the last war that ever need to be fought. But it was not so, I could see now: men fought wars because of the legacy of the brute inside them, and any justification was a mere rationalization supplied by our oversized brains.

Paul closed his eyes, hoping to make the incomprehensible Universe disappear into the vacuum from which it had sprung.

You’re a damn fool, boy. I want you to know that now, in case I don’t get a chance to tell you later.