Here, I thought, I had found the human race in its final stages of decadence perverse, insouciant, without ambition. And I could not blame them. After all, they had no future.

What the local politicians actually meant was that they hoped to claim the land in the name of the public and then make the usual profits privatizing it. There was a principle at stake. They had to ensure their friends and not outsiders got the benefit.

It is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.

The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit.

It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.

I know not which I prefer the look of—those who attack us or that which defends us!

It's getting late. I must return to my ship or my men will think I've drowned and be celebrating.