There is no greater dark than the dark between the stars. - Frederik Pohl

Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's lives. And you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad.

He drew himself up and said with dignity: “We administer justice, Mr. Courtenay. And an ancient, basic tenet of justice is: ‘Better that one thousand innocents suffer unjustly than one guilty person be permitted to escape.’”

It was a wonder that so strange thing as a number should exist in the first place, rivalled only by the greater wonder that they should perform so obediently the work of mankind.