"And adults will recognize a mirage; a child will be deceived. But conversely, an intellectual mirage will deceive an …"

"All these things were slipping away from him, in a clear, cold wisdom that came from beyond the stars. He envisioned …"

"When I die, I want to die in a Utopia that I have helped to build."

"The two girls looked at one another, caught in the terrible, helpless problem of immaturity, the knowledge that the m…"

"A casual eye might have seen nothing extraordinary in Wade as he moved lithely across the meadow toward the Thunderbu…"

"“Counsel will continue,” said the judge, wishing he were Jeffreys so he could send the whole damned bunch to the scaf…"

"The fire that had come from beyond the stars was harnessed. Tamed — chained — by the flesh to which it had once, long…"

"We need not go back through the cavern of the monsters," she said. "There is a way to reach the unseen road from here."

"In the face of real danger Elak forgot the gods and drew his rapier. Prayers, he had found, would not halt a dagger's…"

"The wars ended when there were no longer two societies left to fight against each other."