If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.

I've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying.

Be grateful that you only see the outward man. Be grateful that you never see the passions, the hatreds, the jealousies, the malice, the sicknesses... Be grateful you rarely see the frightening truth in people.

The appeal of science fiction has always been its iconoclasm . . . But in order to be an iconoclast, an author must be more than merely aware of the idol he wishes to destroy. He must be intimate with it and understand it in all its aspects. This means that he must have devoted serious thought to it, and have beliefs of his own which will stand up in the place of the broken idol. In other words, any child can complain, but it takes an adult to clash with accepted beliefs . . . an adult with ideas.

The damnable frustration of revenge. Revenge is for dreams...never for reality.

The mind is the reality. You are what you think.

Gully Foyle is my name And Terra is my nation Deep space is my dwelling place The stars my destination