The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.

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.

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

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.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

The good polis is made by the good person, his moral character intact, and the good polis, in turn, helps turn out good persons, their moral character intact.

I get a delivery of a diet food during the week, which doesn't mean that I don't eat the occasional Krispy Kreme doughnut.

The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.

I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.

Adolescents sense a secret, unique greatness in thems.elves that seeks expression. They gesture towards the heart when trying to express any of this, a significant clue to the whole affair.

Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.

I don't see myself as disabled. There's nothing I can't do that able-bodied athletes can do.

Everything that is now easy for you was once hard in the beginning

A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.