“It's honest to admit you'll kill someone because you hate them.”

“People seem weak, but they're strong. They seem strong, but they're weak.”

“There's always someone who cares. Someone whose life would simply stop. You just don't know it yet, or you haven't found them yet.”

“You honestly expect me to breathe in a world without air?”

“It had always been a breathtaking view, the kind that made him inhale and forget to exhale . . .”

“The more we talk about our troubles and our fears, the more life we breathe into them". HS/el”

“We speak the truth because we live in truth.”

“There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.”

“But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.”

“I'm so close to Schiaparelli I can taste it. I guess it would taste like sand, mostly, but that's not the point.”

“If democracy and self-rule are the fundamentals, then why should people give up these rights when they enter their workplace? In politics we fight like tigers for freedom, for the right to elect ou...”

“NASA are idiots. They want to send canned primates to Mars!" Manfred swallows a mouthful of beer, aggressively plonks his glass on the table: "Mars is just dumb mass at the bottom of a gravity well...”