Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries. Matter (2008)
I’ve been thinking about the war a lot recently, and I think I’ve decided it’s wrong. We are defeating ourselves in waging it, will destroy ourselves by winning it. The State of the Art (1991)
The meeting was a benign environment; potentially just as tremendously boring as war, but without the slivers of utter terror stuck in there as well. Surface Detail (2010)