“It was unhealthy to get too attached. Such things were best reserved for people who had a life expectancy”

“When the universe presented unexpected gifts to the undeserving, how else were they to react, except with sheer paranoia?”

“I love science fiction, always have, always will. But its the kind of science fiction that I love which I think is an important distinction.”

“It seems to me that God would not have endowed us with a mind and a sense of curiosity if he did not mean for us to use it.”

“There are no injuries that run so deep that one can't add insult to them and make them feel even worse.”

“His men had begun gathering the wounded or stunned into a small group some distance back up the slope. Here and there an animal or human stirred, but not many. There were few cries of pain or fear ...”

“There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yo...”

“A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.”

“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.”