There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.

But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

I sometimes wonder how we spent leisure time before satellite television and Internet came along…and then I realise that I have spent more than half of my life in the ‘dark ages’!

. . . Moon-Watcher felt the first faint twinges of a new and potent emotion. It was a vague and diffuse sense of envy--of dissatisfaction with his life. He had no idea of its cause, still less of its cure; but discontent had come into his soul, and he had taken one small step toward humanity.

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.

One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.