If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.

To go faster you must slow down.

to travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards each other

Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.

As its best, SF is the medium in which our miserable certainty that tomorrow will be different from today in ways we cant predict, can be transmuted to a sense of excitement and anticipation, occasionally evolving into awe. Poised between intransigent scepticism and uncritical credulity, it is par excellence the literature of the open mind.

Like living creatures, automobiles expired when their environment became saturated with their own excreta. We ourselves are living creatures. We don't want the same to happen to us.

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.