If it weren't for the people always getting tangled up with the machinery... Earth would be an engineer's paradise.
Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.
The Earthlings behaved at all times as though there were a big eye in the sky—as though that big eye were ravenous for entertainment.
The triumph of anything is a matter of organization.
Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.
We are here for no purpose, unless we can invent one.