The Galaxy was high in the sky and its misty lens shape stretched lazily from horizon to horizon. - Isaac Asimov

I’m being accused of modesty, a horrible and thoroughly unnatural crime.

The Jump remained, and would probably remain forever, the only practical method of travelling between the stars.

Pirenne looked after him and gritted through his teeth: "That insufferable, dull-witted donkey! That — " Hardin broke in: "Not at all. He's merely the product of his environment. He doesn't understand much except that 'I have a gun and you haven't.