Isaac Asimov

"Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in dark-brown mood. He shrugged, and left her."

"Even at the time, [he] felt his anger to be out of proportion to the cause, but it represented an accumulation of resentment."

"...Changelessness is decay.'A paradox. There is no decay without a change for the worse.'Changelessness is a change for the worse..."

"It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy."

"Were I to use the wits the Spirits gave me, then I would say this lady cannot exist - for what sane man would hold a dream to be reality. Yet rather would I not be sane and lend belief to charmed, enchanted eyes."

"Bible: Various portions of it, when properly interpreted, contain a code of behaviour which many men consider best suited to the ultimate happiness of mankind."

"Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income."

"Of course there are worlds. Millions of them! Every star you see has worlds, and most of those you don't see."