You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.