It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?

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.

Anger is always - always - fear in disguise.

It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?

You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

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.

Time didn't pass; it tailgated.