I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe." "'Know thyself.'" "We try, sir.

I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.

Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.

Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.

Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at ease before his own hearth.

As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor

Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?