It's an ancient technique known as lying, Khouri.

Nightside, cities glistened in chains, and a spray of tinkertoy habitats girdled the planet. Gossamer starbridges reached from the equator towards orbit.

I think I've reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level.

Victory loses its meaning without the memory of what you've vanquished.

As the old saying went, the Manhattan Project wasn't built in a day. Or was that Rome? Something to do with Earth, anyway.

A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.

Enjoy it, kid. Enjoy feeling that you can make a difference.' Floyd flashed him a smile. 'It won't last for ever.

You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse.

Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves.

It’s the people who don’t worry—those who never have any doubts that what they’re doing is good and right—they’re the ones that cause the problems.

Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.

In worthy teaching, all things are related.

Why does the forbidden always add that edge of sweetness?

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

It is primarily through the growth of science and technology that man has acquired those attributes which distinguish him from the animals, which have indeed made it possible for him to become human.

Never answer a hypothetical question. It gets you beyond where you want to be.

The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status.

I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor.

The internet, since it is publicly created, ought to be publicly controlled.

I live in terror of not being misunderstood.