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“Stars, everywhere. So many stars that I could not for the life me understand how the sky could contain them all yet be so black.”
Source : Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.19, Head of Zeus
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“Thinking, not for the first time, that life should come with a trapdoor. Just a little exit hatch you could disappear through when you´d utterly and completely mortified yourself. Or when you had spontaneous zit eruptions. “Good book?†he asked, taking it from her and reading the subtitle, “A Guide for Good Girls Who (Sometimes) Want to Be Bad,†out loud. But life did not come with a trapdoor.”
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“In business, integrity is just as important as in any of the great public offices... but I believe one of the first and fundamental obligations of competent business leadership is above all to protect the reputation and integrity of the business - to that degree the integrity of the business is the integrity of the leader.”
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“Guns alone are not the answer. We must provide hope for young people for better housing, clothing, and food; and if we do, the radicals will wither away”
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“Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.”
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“I bought a house in LA, hanging out there and spending a lot of time in Toronto, but not much.”
Source : "Scott Speedman for 'xXx: State of the Union'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. April 26, 2005. 
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“Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.”
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“I like a man who can run faster than I can.”
Source : "Fictional character: Dorothy Shaw". "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", www.imdb.com. 1953.
