Sometimes a decision has to be made by a single individual, who has the authority to enforce it. That's why you need a captain. You can't run a ship by a committee-at least not all the time.

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

Then he [The Star Child] waited, marshaling his thoughts and brooding over his still untested powers. For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next. But he would think of something.

I'm quite fond of the writer who told a beginning author, "If you've got a message, use Western Union."

The exploration of the planets is now closer to us in time than the exploration of Africa by Stanley and Livingstone.

The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion.

Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom.