But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness.

Hugh Miller

There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.

John L. Phillips

Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.

Plutarch

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Plato

I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive.

Joan Rivers

I rather take the risk of trying to find real love than loving someone I know that is guaranteed

Kristal Eley

Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.

Merton Miller

Nobody ever died of laughter.

Max Beerbohm

That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a long time in the study of philosophy appear ridiculous when they enter the courts of law as speakers. Those who have knocked about in courts and the like from their youth up seem to me, when compared with those who have been brought up in philosophy and similar pursuits, to be as slaves in breeding compared with freemen.

Plato

I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.

Pat Robertson

How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach knotted up every time he saw her shake loose her hair from its braid? How could he describe how it felt when she finished his sentences, turnec the mug they were sharing so that her mouth landed where his had been? How did he explain the way they could be in a locker room, or underwater, or in the piney woods of Maine, bus as long as Em was with him, he was at home?

Jodi Picoult

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

W. Somerset Maugham