Not for the first time Richard reflected that this age's vaunted 'communications industry' had chiefly provided people and nations with the means of ….

I abominate any organization that denies cats are people!.

What was life worth, anyway, if you had to sit around remembering not to mention this, that, and the other thing because someone else might be upset?.

A scientist ought to have a healthy disregard for coincidences..

What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence liking yourself's the beginning of all love..

Of course, if you assume a big enough conspiracy, you can explain anything, including the cosmos itself..

Traffic growled and snarled, rising at times to a machine-gun rata-tat-tat, while pedestrians were scuttling about with that desperate ratlike urgenc….

The gods spend the wealth the universe gathers, they scan the wonders and fling them to nothingness. That's why they're the gods! I told you they wer….

The result is ... that there's no room left in the world for the weird – though plenty for crude, contemptuous, wisecracking, fun-poking imitations o….

Better freedom and a chilly road than a warm hearth and servitude..

The dark dangerous forest is still there, my friends. Beyond the space of the astronauts and the astronomers, beyond the dark, tangled regions of Fre….

Devils may be nothing but beings intent on their purpose, which now happens to collide with yours..

What is superstition , but misguided, unobjective science? And when it comes down to that, is it to be wondered if people grasp at superstition in th….

Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy , looking for the philosopher's stone. T….

Then time seemed to stop, or rather to lose its directional urgency of movement; it became a place in the open where one stood rather than a low, nar….

There was an omnipresent sense of crisis..

Yet for all the childish innocence of its bizarre glamor, Venice developed an atmosphere, or became the outpost of a sinister deep-rooted power.... I….

We're free out here, really free for the first time. We're floating, literally. Gravity can't bow our backs or break our arches or tame our ideas. Yo….

There was always something new to be seen in the unchanging night sky..

There are vampires and vampires, and not all of them suck blood..

Things are different from what I thought. They're much worse..