“She liked who she was becoming, despite the pain and frustration it brought.”

“As one climbs up the ladders in society, one starts feeling more and more like an owner, less like a member of it.”

“In the world union, prosperity is a science, self-interest a new religion, peace is at hand and the future has never looked brighter.”

“This director could say many things about duty, and self-respect, and dignity, but she knew none of these meant much in the post-modern world.”

“You can only rise so far by climbing on others shoulders, you know.”

“Now, this was a combination that she wouldnt dare to dream of, even in her worst nightmare.”

“He was, however, unable to give much prolonged or continuous thought to anything that evening , or to concentrate on any one idea; and anyway, even if he had been able to, he would not have found h...”

“Nature can counsel nothing but crime.”

“A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.”

“I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”

“Future warns us through current symptoms in nature.”

“Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with ...”

“We realized that among us, among all the races, we had a staggering fund of knowledge and of techniques - that working together, by putting together all this knowledge and capability, we could arri...”

“It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.”

“Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.”