"In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri."

"Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all."

"Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose."

"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it."

"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."

"We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books."

"This only is certain, that there is nothing certain; and nothing more miserable and yet more arrogant than man."

"Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem."

"Laws do not persuade just because they threaten."

"He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended."

"Conscience, in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others."

"The family is one of nature's masterpieces."