“One of the things that everybody knows about space travel but never mentions is its aphrodisiac quality.”

“It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.”

“You mean old books?""Stories written before space travel but about space travel.""How could there have been stories about space travel before --""The writers," Pris said, "made it up.”

“The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.”

“I don't know the first thing about holding together a family, especially one that resembles an heirloom vase, shattered but glued back together for its beauty, and no one mentions that you can see the cracks as plain as day. ”

“Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.”