Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep.

We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny. . . . The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world, it is the spectacle of the Americans beginning to accept the device of loyalty oaths and witch hunts, beginning to call anybody they don't like a Communist.

Why is it, do you suppose, that an Englishman is unhappy until he has explained America?

There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.

If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.

I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.