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.

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.

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.

Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.

Then, I guess, I can only hope that you will change your mind. But I will love you, without a doubt, for all eternity.

Underwater madness slipping into a haze, drowning and choking in repugnant nostalgic thoughts.

Death of destiny: dust

With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it was okay to toss out our civil liberties if the 'bad guys' were scary enough.

Why is it taking so long to believe that if we hurt Nature, we hurt ourselves?

The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat.

All the rest of the world uses the word electricity. They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!

Through the Australians, and the Japanese, too, I suppose, the Americans get their message across, but not in a heavy-handed way.

It is a mistake to assume that the law should always enforce morality.

We rarely think of the air we breathe, yet it is in us and around us all the time. In similar fashion, the presence of God penetrates us, is all around us, is always embracing us.