Fish cannot carry guns.

We have entered a Moment when we are alone. We cannot get assistance, as before. Well, Mr. Tagomi thought, perhaps that too is good. Or can be made good. One must still try to find the Way.

The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow.

The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeeth-century novels of exploration in fabulous lands. Therefore Jules Verne's story of travel to the moon is not science fiction because they go by rocket but because of where they go. It would be as much science fiction if they went by rubber band.

I mean, knowing people, people are terrified of the unknown and they want to just kill the unknown.

The will to believe chases out the rational mind, whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.

Every time I see a picture of Stalin I look him square in the eye and I say: You're a meat eater, Joseph.