Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced by his first contact with a culture that does.

I sold my soul for knowledge of the future, only to have that very pact render me forever ignorant (Gerald Tarrant).

All about us were people. Perhaps a hundred. Men. Experience had taught me that humans were cruelest when segregated by sex, and the cold feeling in the pit of my stomach became led. What had...

anger of any kind is a dangerous emotion, it eats at the nerves and eventually makes you careless

The Tyr had tried. It had really tried. It must have gone over every element of human psychology, tried desperately to understand the nature of human aesthetic sense … and then failed, miserably, in every...

It struck Hsing suddenly that Masada didn’t even understand the nature of his own genius. To him the patterns of thought and motive that he sensed in the virus were self-explanatory, and those who could...

Sometimes the decision is placed in your hands and you just have to go with it, right or wrong, according to what you think is best.