The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin.

I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only a shred of self-respect, it was enough to take you through the next bit.

Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.

Emotion is a rotten base for politics.

Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they dont apply to you.

Life has a way of kicking one along like a football, or so I've found. Fate had never dealt me personally a particularly easy time, but that was OK, that was normal. Most people, it seemed to me, took their turn to be football. Most survived. Some didn't.

Physics is the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities - of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is the science of the mysteries of the universe. How could anyone think it dull?