Murray Leinster

"For once, no eminent figure assumed the undignified pose involved in standing on one’s dignity."

"Again time passed. In one of the remoter galaxies a supernova flamed, and on a rocky, barren world a small living thing squirmed experimentally—and to mankind the one event was just as important as th…"

"His reasoning was emotional, and therefore simple."

"It was a symptom of the insanity of human beings in a cosmos obviously designed for them to live in, but which they industriously prepare to make unlivable."

"Hoddan fumbled for her meaning. It wasn’t quite an apology for trying to get him killed. But at least it was a disclaimer of future intentions in that direction."

"There is never a rational reason for a man to rejoice that a certain pretty girl exists and that he has found her. The experience, however, is universal."

"My purpose is not to make profits, but to keep people from being killed. Quaint, eh? But I’m one of the people I don’t want killed."

"It isn’t illegal to buy an artist’s work for peanuts and sell it again at any price one can get. But it is an outrage!"