How frail, he thought, is the compact that holds our government together! Good will alone is all that sustains it. - Robert Silverberg

All true enlightenment is illegal at first, within its context.

Morality after the fact, said Eli from the rear, is worse than no morality at all.

Schwartz closed his eyes. “My grandmother told me never to get mixed up with economists. Their thinking is muddy and their breath is bad, she said. She also warned me against Yale men. Perverts of the intellect, she called them. So here I am cooped up on an interstellar ship with five hundred alien creatures and one fellow human, and he has to be an economist from Yale.”