It was a dramatization of total chaos, a functional definition of confusion, an unchoreographed dance of sad violence. It was war. The Fall of Hyperion (1990)
Those who ignore history’s lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them...they may be forced to die by them. The Fall of Hyperion (1990)
I could not do this, I realized, if I were immortal. This degree of love of life and of one another is granted, I saw for once and for ever, not to immortals, but to those who live briefly and always under the shadow of death and loss. The Rise of Endymion (1997)