HR?' 'Human Resources.' 'In Brussels that kind of department is referred to as the Office for Personkind Enablement. Resources sounds like something you dig out of the ground.

How many twenty-second-century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel? We'll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you with an estimate.

The military do so love shiny new technology, there's always so many ways to abuse it.

Once you've achieved everything, there is nothing left. You take out the core of being human: the striving.

The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.

Sometimes you have to do what’s wrong in order to do what’s right.

You cannot impose ideologies on people who do not embrace it wholeheartedly.

I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would be to doubt the value of life itself.

Always trust in proven survivors.

The sun was boiling, the swaying was uncomfortable, the horse stank. She felt wonderful

Alien Affairs. Bad name I always thought, makes it sound like they're shagging them rather than investigating them.

Boredom is the fear of self.

All that may be wished for, will by nature fade to nothing.

The kingdom of heaven in not a place but a state of mind.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

The powers contained in a constitution...ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good.

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.

The advertising man who spares the midnight oil will never get very far.

We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.

I part-own a bookshop for some strange coincidence of reasons, and it is one of the best things I part-own in my life, or own in my life. I do not know, it just feels great.

It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.