The higher powers reward us most tenderly by their absence from our lives. - Robert Silverberg

No man ever looked more like a President than Harding; it was his only qualification for the job, but it was enough to get him there.

“The cages are ready in case any of the enemies are captured.”
“You mean us?”
“Yes. Enemies.” Muller’s eyes glittered with sudden paranoid fury; it was alarming how easily he slipped from rational discourse to that cold blaze. “Homo sapiens. The most dangerous, the most ruthless, the most despicable beast in the universe!”
“You say it as if you believe it.”
“I do.”

I hate no one, sir. It seems a waste of emotional energy.