Nothing remains interesting where anything may happen.

I felt the first inkling of a thing that presently grew quite clear in my mind, that oppressed me for many days, a sense of dethronement, a persuasion that I was no longer a master, but an animal among the animals, under the Martian heel.With us it would be as with them, to lurk and watch, to run and hide; the fear and empire of man had passed away.

We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hectoring and blustering in our way of achievement.

We will peck them to death to-morrow, my dear.

There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven.

You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.