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Egalitarians adjust to aristocracies just fine, as long as they get to be the aristocrats.

I came from a world filled with penis envy to a world of brain envy!

We must be as stealthy as rats in the wainscoting of their society. It was easier in the old days, of course, and society had more rats when the rules were looser, just as old wooden buildings have more rats than concrete buildings. But there are rats in the building now as well. Now that society is all ferrocrete and stainless steel there are fewer gaps in the joints. It takes a very smart rat indeed to find these openings. Only a stainless steel rat can be at home in this environment.

I have a feeling someone’s deceiving us.

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!

Oh, the pain, the pain!

Take a punch in the solar plexus, did you?

Fred, I showed you Ben Morgan’s body. The man virtually exploded.

At first you don’t think you can stand to get hit, then you realize you can take it ‘cause the blood don’t matter, and you know you’re gonna live. It’s a great gift I’m goin’ to give you - to know it don’t hurt to fight!

Tests are a gift, she says, and great tests are a great gift.

Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.

Are we learning yet?

May I suggest the Imperial Service Academy?

As I always say, class, you’re out of this world.

Everyone’s been acting really weird, especially the faculty.

No need to be alarmed, Miss Lane. These gentlemen are using my anti-memory vapor for the good of mankind.

Well, it’s better than passing with 51% on the second try.

Do or do not. There is no try.

You’re in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish.

Who’s the more foolish: the fool, or the fool who follows him?