The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy – and so do all of us, more than we imagine.

If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does.

The clock is the most sacred thing in a hospital.

It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" -- that one's own time and place is beyond cataclysm.

Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten

And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.

...after all, what is a planet but an island in space?