Lois McMaster Bujold People Quotations

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.

Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.

Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?

All the worry people expend over not existing after they die, yet nary a one ever seems to spare a moment to worry about not having existed before they were conceived. Or at all. After all, one sperm over and we would have been our sisters, and we'd never have been missed.

The world is made by the people who show up for the job.

People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.

If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.

Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.

I have a catch-phrase to describe my plot-generation technique -- 'What's the worst possible thing I can do to these people?'

I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.

My home is not a place, it is people.

Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.