New mutations don’t create new species; they create offspring that are impaired.

We’ve got this weird dysgenic situation where we’re basically just paying idiots to breed and taxing intelligent people to stay away from each other with anything remotely resembling fertility.

Relax, having kids is years away. But can you imagine? Your brains, my charm, our collective good looks… then add in the usual physical abilities dhampirs get. It’s really not even fair to everyone else.

The Spirit, and your soul are not the same things. The Spirit is God – the source. Your soul is God’s imagination.

Two imbecile parents, whether related or not, have only imbecile offspring.

A culture of vultures steeped and born of violence shall choke on the blood of its offspring.

In its various forms, so far as we know them, Love seems always to have a deep significance and a most practical importance to us little mortals. In one form, as the mere semi-conscious Sex-love,...

But Nita had always seen having a child as selfish. Why bring another soul into this world, she’d say, when there are so many out there that need our help?

from Out of the Darkness (book 2):Zoe met Eric’s eyes. Even in her platforms she was still a few inches shorter than he was. “And what do you do?”His mouth quirked. “I set people on...

Random lines, Beyond the Darkness: “Playing ‘tag, you’re it’ against a car is a bad idea.

If I release you, you won’t scream? I’d rather not continue the conversation like this.”She shook her head, and he freed her. She scrambled away from him, feeling the grooves of the headboard bite into...

It still remains unrecognised, that to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training for its mind, is a...

And the others too were beginning to remark in Swann that abnormal, excessive, shameful and deserved senescence of bachelors, of all those for whom it seems that the great day which knows no morrow must...