For after the Battle comes quiet.

If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.

I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world

The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size, strength, and intelligence.

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for an assumed abundance of financially impotent and sufficiently ingenious fools.

It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin

If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters.