It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.

Isn't it sad that you can tell people that the ozone layer is being depleted, the forests are being cut down, the deserts are advancing steadily, that the greenhouse effect will raise the sea level 200 feet, that overpopulation is choking us, that pollution is killing us, that nuclear war may destroy us - and they yawn and settle back for a comfortable nap. But tell them that the Martians are landing, and they scream and run.

Goodbye, Hari, my love. Remember always--all you did for me.”
           
-I did nothing for you.”
           
-You loved me and your love made me--human.

Imagine that. Terrible, terrible, the way we have all bent to the yoke; the affection we have for the harness about us.

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

Mortality defines the human condition.