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“O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!”
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“We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland.”
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“Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions”
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“Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it's debilitating.”
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“It's hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We're dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers.”
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“We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.”
Source : John Robert Seeley (2010). “The Expansion of England: Two Courses of Lectures”, p.8, Cambridge University Press
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“Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it is a scandal that in 1999 so many writers have written it and continue to write it in obscurity.”
Source : "In defense of science fiction" by John Clute, www.cnn.com. May 26, 1999. 
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“The scare quotes burn off like fog.”
