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Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.

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How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean.

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The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible

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Sometimes, during the lonely hours on the control deck, Bowman would listen to this radiation. He would turn up the gain until the room filled with a ...more

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Oh God, there were so many stars you could have used. What was the need to give these people to the fire, that the symbol of their passing might shine...more

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(...)Through the ship's telescopes, he had watched the death of the solar system. With his own eyes, he had seen the volcanoes of Mars erupt for the f...more

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Slowly, Jimmy held up his outstretched hands. Men had been arguing for two hundred years about this gesture; would every creature, everywhere in the u...more

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..the happy hum of humanity.

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In this universe the night was falling; the shadows were lengthening towards an east that would not know another dawn. But elsewhere the stars were st...more

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Bowman was aware of some changes in his behavior patterns; it would have been absurd to expect anything else in the circumstances. He could no longer ...more

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Imagine that every man’s mind is an island, surrounded by ocean. Each seems isolated, yet in reality all are linked by the bedrock from which they spr...more

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Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of...more

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Even more alarming were persistent rumors that someone had smuggled an Emotion Amplifier on board 'Mentor'. The so-called joy machines were banned on ...more

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In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - ca...more

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The Chairman glared across three hundred and eighty thousand kilometers of space at Conrad Taylor, who reluctantly subsided, like a volcano biding its...more