That’s one thing about these religious boys—they reckon that if they are on God’s side, then the enemy must be on the devil’s, and so they have no qu… - Brian Aldiss

As long as the chromosome reproduced itself in sufficient dominance, he was immortal! To him, in an unscientific age, the problem did not present itself quite like that; but he realized that there was a trait to be kept in the family.

You know that if you had been in charge of creation you would have found some medium less heart-breaking than Time to stage it in.

Violence was regarded as an acceptable solution to many problems which would never have originated had violence not been in the air in the first place.