“The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.”

“No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie--or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have been speculating upon the destinies of our race until I have hatched this fiction. Treat my assertion of its truth as a mere stroke of art to enhance its interest. And taking it as a story, what do you think of it?”

“Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.”

“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”

“Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.”

“There's truths you have to grow into.”

“I suppose a suicide who holds a pistol to his skull feels much the same wonder at what will come next as I felt then.”