Escape is a commodity like anything else

“Horza recalled that the Culture's attitude to somebody who believed in an omnip…”

“Hey, Wrobik; cheer up, yeah? You're going to shoot down a fucking starship. It'…”

“It's a library, only the stupid or the evil are afraid of those”

“There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without addin…”