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.

People who live under fascism are not only miserable but they're full of shame. You just don't go in and inject democracy into them. They're half crazy with their own.

There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.

I don't hate women, but I think they should be kept in cages.

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

...the indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth.

Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people.