There is probably no heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Love is simple to understand if you haven't got a mind soft and full of holes. It's a crutch, that's all, and there isn't any one of us that doesn't need a crutch.

A democracy depends upon people getting brighter all the time. Democracies are delicate. They're not just ipso facto and just go on and on.

Dying can't be all that difficult-up to now everyone has managed to do it.

I become an actor, a quick-change artist, as if I can trap the Prince of Truth in the act of switching a style.

Armstrong, sitting in the commander's seat, spacesuit on, helmet on, plugged into electrical and environmental umbilical's, is a man who is not only a machine himself in the links of these networks, but is also a man sitting in (what Collins is later to call) a 'mini-cathedral.' a man somewhat more than a pilot, somewhat more than a superpilot, is in fact a veritable high priest of the forces of society and scientific history concentrated in that mini cathedral, a general of the church of the forces of technology.