It is at night... that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull. - Brian Aldiss

I feel happy or sad. I love people. Therefore I am human. Isn't that so?

Irreconcilables: he should stay here and conform; he should — not stay here (remembering no time when he was not here, Harley could frame the second idea no more clearly than that). Another point of pain was that "here" and "not here" seemed to be not two halves of a homogeneous whole, but two dissonances.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.