I looked at my notes and I didn't like them. - Isaac Asimov

Battling a sickness of the spirit was like standing in a quickstand and beating it with a stick.

Ten years on the moon could tell us more about the universe than a thousand years on the earth might be able to.

And so it happened, that when others bent their knee, he refused and added loudly that his ancestors in their time bowed no knee to any stinking mayor. And in his ancestors’ time the mayor was elected anyhow, and kicked out at will, and that the only people that inherited anything by right of birth were the congenital idiots.