“I've still got the bible, I stole that night from my revival. From some hotel on 35.”

“My lyrics aren't offensive. Some people find everything offensive.”

“But what's in a name? We have named all of the stars and all the planets, even though they might already have names of their own. What a nerve!”

“Deciding to wait, Scott sat down with a pint away from the bar at a corner table and lit a cigarette. The clientele in there on Sunday afternoon were the same as most other afternoons. From middle-...”

“Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.”

“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.”