What would happen is that people like Geroge and Alyx would grow old and die chasing a dream. Although there were probably worse things to do with on… - Jack McDevitt

Mac continued to write scathing commentary on assorted hypocrisies in high places and low, without which hypocrisies, he cheerfully conceded, civilized life would be impossible.

If some of the current politicians had been around a few thousand years ago," she'd said, "we never would have gotten out of Africa. Boats cost too much.

Never look for complexity in diplomatic decisions. With very few exceptions, actions always devolve—and that’s the exact term—from someone’s self-interest. Not the national self-interest, by the way. We are talking here about individual careers.