Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.

- John Wyndham

Find a nice, self sufficient hilltop, and fortify it.

- John Wyndham

It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.

- John Wyndham

The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.

- John Wyndham

...after all, what is a planet but an island in space?

- John Wyndham

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?

- John Wyndham

The clock is the most sacred thing in a hospital.

- John Wyndham

If you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either.

- John Wyndham

Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.

- John Wyndham