If Max [Aitken] gets to Heaven he won't last long. He will be chucked out for trying to pull off a merger between Heaven and Hell ... after having secured a controlling interest in key subsidiary companies in both places, of course.

once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.

It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips the moral veils from vegetation and we apprehend its stark ferocity.

If anything is possible, then nothing is interesting

This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.

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.

He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it.