In fact there was only one species on the planet more intelligent than dolphins, and they spent a lot of their time in behavioural research laboratories running around inside wheels and conduction frighteningly elegant and subtle experiments on man. The fact that once again man completely misinterpreted this relationship was entirely according to these creatures’ plans.

No. No games. He wanted her and didn't care who knew it. He definitely and absolutely wanted her, longed for her, wanted to do more things than there were names for with her.

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

It's not the fall that kills you; it's the sudden stop at the end.

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

He sniggered. He didn't like to think of himself as the sort of person who giggled or sniggered, but he had to admit that he had been giggling and sniggering almost continuously for well over half an hour now.