No me considero como un ser de inteligencia subnormal, pero la cuestión es que su vaga conferencia no es muy reveladora. - Isaac Asimov

Mai obișnuia să spună că nimic nu trebuie să fie adevărat, ci totul trebuie să pară adevărat.

To a thoughtful biographer, [Ebling Mis's house] was "the symbolization of a retreat from a non-academic reality", a society columnist gushed silkily at its "frightfully masculine atmosphere of careless disorder", a University Ph.D called it brusquely, "bookish, but unorganized", a non-university friend said, "good for a drink anytime and you can put your feet on the sofa", and a breezy newsweekly broadcast, that went in for color, spoke of the "rooky, down-to-earth, no-nonsense living quarters of blaspheming, Leftish, balding Ebling Mis".

To Bayta, who thought of no audience but herself at the moment, and who had the advantage of first-hand information, it was merely sloppy.

Trantorians, poor specimens that they are, know nothing about open air, free water, and the true balance of nature.