Life is a freak. That’s its hope and glory.

One of the things that everybody knows about space travel but never mentions is its aphrodisiac quality.

Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.

Gully Foyle is my name And Terra is my nation Deep space is my dwelling place The stars my destination

Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief

The mind is the reality. You are what you think.

Millions for nonsense, but not one cent for entropy.

I'm not much interested in extrapolating science and technology; I merely use extrapolation as a means of putting people into new quandaries which produce colorful pressures and conflicts.

No matter how we defend ourselves against the outside we're always licked by something from the inside. Ther's no defense against betrayal, and we all betray ourselves.

I've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying.

Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.

I'm already gone. I died that night on the side of that road with my sister.

Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well.

You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.

(...) when a man's looking down the double barrel of a shotgun, he picks up the first weapon he can find to defend himself, be it a stone or a stick of stove wood or a citizens' council.

Waves don't think, plan and prepare to better their rise after every fall. They are pristine as they are.

Judgment consists not in seeing through deceptions and evil intentions, but in being able to awaken the decency dormant in every person.

If we do not honor our past, we lose our future. If we destroy our roots, we cannot grow.

Comfort is very important to me. I think people live better in big houses and in big clothes.

The Public ... demands certainties ... But there are not certainties

There is a need for subjects who find intense pleasure in commodification of violence and a culture of cruelty.