Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for
John WyndhamWhen a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.
John WyndhamWe all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.
John WyndhamI don't think it had ever occurred to me that man's supremacy is not primarily due to his brain, as most of the books would have one think. It is due to the brain's capacity to make use of the information conveyed to it by a narrow band of visible light rays. His civilization, all that he had achieved or might achieve, hung upon his ability to perceive that range of vibrations from red to violet. Without that, he was lost.
John Wyndham