"Every living thing was shunning him. Poor little Peter Pan, he sat down and cried, and even then he did not know that, for a bird, he was sitting on his wrong part. It is a blessing that he did not know, for otherwise he would have lost faith in his power to fly, and the moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings."

"In the current fashionable denigration of technology, it is easy to forget that nuclear fission is a natura…"

"And he couldn't do it. He could not fucking die. How could he leave? How could he go? Everything he hated w…"

"It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe…"

"Most of my readers will have felt the sensation of suddenly falling into the void, just at the point when s…"

"You may take from me, Sir, the privileges and emoluments of place, but you cannot, and you shall not, take …"

"I know how it's gonna be when I die. It's going to be no noise, you ain't going to hear people screaming. I…"