"Things whispered here, and the trees muttered with the wind and perhaps with other things. Men knew the place was old, old as the world, and they never made peace with it."

“Poisoning rarely happens in a well-managed kitchen.”

“For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.”

“Inevitably the party trying to resolve a matter had to contend with the party most willing to exploit it.”

“At this point I ceased argument with Lt. Goforth and shot him in the belly.”

“What happened this far remote would have little political impact on Earth. What the visual media could not carry into living rooms, the general public could not long remain exercised about. Statistically, a majority of the electorate could not or did not read complicated issues; no pictures, no news; no news, no event.”

“There are certain myths that have persisted throughout the ages, and this one has remained very potent in modern culture. The Arthurian cycle involves numerous kinds of relationships, not only between men but also between men and women. In our rather less structured society nowadays defining these relationships can sometimes be difficult.”