The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere.

Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!

The Martians were there - in the canal - reflected in the water.... The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water.

Those who don't build must burn.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

Everything that happens before Death is what counts.

You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl's better off dead