There was no doubt about it: the City was the culmination of man's mastery over the environment. - Isaac Asimov

There can be no serious conflicts on Earth, in which one group or another can seize more power than it has for what it thinks is its own good despite the harm to Mankind as a whole, while the Machines rule.

Remarkable what a fragile flower romance is. A gun with a nervous operator behind it can spoil the whole thing.

If the love of money is the root of all evil, the need of money is most certainly the root of all despair.