90 Quotes by Adrian Tchaikovsky

My name is Rex. I am a Good Dog.

He could be human, in that last moment. He could exalt in his ability to destroy.

This will be the first of a thousand worlds that we will give life to. For we are gods, and we are lonely, so we shall create.

Honour was like a coat: sometimes one did not have time to put it on.

He'll be my catamite.

There had been too many tales of heroes, and too little on how to act like one when the time came.

The ice had been retreating. Humanity had sprung back swiftly, expanded, fought its small wars, re-industrialized, tripping constantly over reminders of what the species had previously achieved.

All things die,' she told him. Such a truism, it was the trite utterance of any street-corner philosopher, but coming from Inaspe Raimm it sounded different. 'All things reach the end of their journey, be they trees, insects, people or even principalities. All things die so that others may take their place. To die is no tragedy. The tragedy is dying with a purpose unfulfilled.

Also we avoided the toadying and crowd pleasing of democracy, an idea so far-fetched that I am tempted to suggest that it was never practiced save by writers of fiction.