Self-preservation has frequently knuckled under to that tremendous yearning to ‘get even.’ - Isaac Asimov

I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it. Now, when I read constantly about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

You see, Peter, machines can't fall in love, but — even when it's hopeless and horrifying — women can!

I once told Riose that not all the Empire's strength could swerve the dead hand of Hari Seldon.