"You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history"
— Iain M. Banks

"Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself."
— Lois McMaster Bujold (A Civil Campaign)

"Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same."
— Lois McMaster Bujold (Mirror Dance)

"I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement."
— Lois McMaster Bujold (Mirror Dance)