“As I saw it, a little threatening was a good thing. It kept the men on their toes.”
“In times like these, when their fat little comforts are threatened, you may be sure that science is the first thing men will sacrifice.”
“The truth was, they had not kept in touch. War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. The things they saw, the things they did. Sometimes they just wanted to forget.”
“He looked at the world from above. Where I saw threatening waves, he saw tranquil water.”
“I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.”
“I saw the void beneath the surface of the world; it threatened to pull me under.”