Devils may be nothing but beings intent on their purpose, which now happens to collide with yours.

Not for the first time Richard reflected that this age's vaunted 'communications industry' had chiefly provided people and nations with the means of frightening to death and simultaneously boring to extinction themselves and each other.

There was always something new to be seen in the unchanging night sky.

What is superstition , but misguided, unobjective science? And when it comes down to that, is it to be wondered if people grasp at superstition in this rotten, hate-filled, half-doomed world of today? Lord knows, I'd welcome the blackest of black magic, if it could do anything to stave off the atom bomb.

Of course, if you assume a big enough conspiracy, you can explain anything, including the cosmos itself.

Better freedom and a chilly road than a warm hearth and servitude.

There was an omnipresent sense of crisis.