Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.

Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.

No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has to be their own . . . and that the trouble they are in is all their own doing . . . is one that they can't or won't entertain.

History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

Then I glanced at the ring on my finger. The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail, Forever and Ever. I know where I came from—but where did all you zombies come from? I felt a headache coming on, but a headache powder is one thing I do not take. I did once—and you all went away. So I crawled into bed and whistled out the light. You aren’t really there at all. There isn’t anybody but me—Jane—here alone in the dark. I miss you dreadfully!

We learned not to waste ammo even on warriors except in self-protection