In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.'

With eternity to draw on there could be no reason for hurrying - 'hurry' was not a concept in Martian.

I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts- because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting... I had been told that a 'funny' thing is a thing of goodness. It isn't... The goodness is in the laughing. I grok it is a bravery- and a sharing- against pain and sorrow and defeat.

Budget the luxuries first.

Everybody lies about sex.

I believe in the honest craft of workmen.

The Stone trembled and threw herself outward bound, toward Saturn. In her train followed hundreds and thousands and hundreds of thousands of thousands of restless, rolling Stones . . . to Saturn . . . to Uranus, to Pluto . . . rolling on out to the stars . . . outward bound to the ends of the Universe.