We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood.

Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them.

The whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

... you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.