People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.

People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.

But that was just it - hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned.

He thought about how it might be to be, say, a fox confronted with an angry sheep. A sheep moreover, that could afford to employ wolves.

Progress just means bad things happen faster.

That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can invent things that anyone could have thought of are very rare men.

You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?