I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.

If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.

Using material ferried up by rockets, it would be possible to construct a "space station" in ... orbit. The station could be provided with living quarters, laboratories and everything needed for the comfort of its crew, who would be relieved and provisioned by a regular rocket service. (1945)

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.