Quotes from Peter David

the point is that every fight is worth fighting. Even the hopeless ones.

I am merely an operative for an outside government, who adopted an undercover persona and entered restricted territory through subterfuge for the purpose of discreetly gathering information that might be of use to my superiors.

If I die before he does, or he before me, eventually we both end up in the same place. That's the odd thing about life. No one gets out alive.

Anyone can fight a battle that's easy to win. It's fighting the battles that are impossible to win that causes humanity to take those great leaps forward.

This famed orphan of the storm tended to bob about as helplessly as a cork (embracing the cliché in order to maintain the metaphor) until matters happened to, through no effort of his own, land him upon safe and welcoming shores.

but offered him nothing beyond that. Dodger, for his part, would remove

Well, there are times when we know where people are, yes? This would not be one of those times.

That, child, is one of the glorious advantages to being a madman. I don't have to make sense. It's very liberating. You should try it sometime.

little bit. There're two ways to respond to them, Jean-Luc: either roll over and give them what they want, or fight them no matter what the risk. Which option are you going to embrace!?

I'm not supposed to be here, Xy.

My name is Tragic Solitude 000. I am the Keeper of the Ark.

Fore-runners

Then later, Delta Halo too was allowed to be contaminated by the parasite, only to be scorched to char and ash by Sangheili warships.

The capacity for leadership is one of the greatest gifts in the universe. But it brings with it a heavy burden. Never forget that.

What is that thing? Vampires. Or, as it was spelled at the time, vampyres. Yes, we know: It is difficult to accept, a strain to wrap your head around. Go and take the time to do so. Watch some television programs, or read some books in which vampyres are heroic and charming and sparkle in the daylight, and then return here and brace yourself for a return to a time that vampyres were things that went bump in the night.

I simply wish to offer my fart-helt apologies, sir, for you're just an honest man doin' your job, and I'm a dishonest lad doin' mine, and of the two, you have far more reason to hang your head high than does I.

It was tragic enough for the average citizen to know that bloodsucking monsters known as tax collectors already existed; to be informed that there were other inhuman bloodsuckers stalking the night as well, desiring to sink their fangs elsewhere than bank accounts, might simply have been too much for people to bear.

She's really beating the stuffing out of him. What do you think we should do? Sell tickets. - Riker and Worf

My name is Abraham van Helsing. And I've seen more than you can possibly believe exist." "I don't recognize your accent, boy. Where do you come from?" "I'm Dutch." "You sound more German than Dutch." "My mother is German. I'm told I got the accent from her. But I am Dutch.

fiction is a harsher, more demanding mistress than fact.

How could there be any part of space that belonged to any specific species, because space had always been and would always be, long after the races that had staked their claims had vanished.

The biggest evildoers in the world, the ones who do what's not right, are the ones who have all the power, and that's what makes it right. It's right not 'cause you say so, or I say, or even if the Lord on high says so. It's right 'cause them what's got the money and the power, they say it's right, and that makes it right even if it's dead wrong. Dead wrong.

most notably the UNSC Spirit of Fire in 2531, a story everyone in the UNSC damn well knew.

Yet he derives emotional strength merely from the knowledge of her existence.