I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

I hate everything which is not in myself.

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars.

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.

So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.