The day Apollo 11 landed, I knew men would walk on Mars in my lifetime. I'm no longer nearly so sure. The last budget put forward in Canada contained not a penny for Mars.

It's always coldest before the warm.

Dreams should be forgotten when we wake. Or one day we will find ourselves unable to sleep.

If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.

Mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening ... and those who find it thrilling. The rupture between those two sides has been responsible for most of the bloodshed in history.

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything so remote and intangible. They were suddenly become a dirty, shivering boy, who told us that in this world we had built for him with our sweat and our blood, he was not only tired of living, but so unscared of dying that he did it daily, sometimes for recreation.