Цитаты из книги Город и Звёзды

It is lovely to watch the colored shadows on the planets of eternal light.

When reality was depressing, men tried to console themselves with myths.

It never occured to Alvin that such creatures might be other than friendly; both he and Hilvar took this for granted, for it had been so many ages since anything on Earth had challenged the supremacy of Man.

Why should anyone accept death when it was so unnecessary, when you had the choice of living of a thousand years and then leaping forward through the millenniums to make a new start in a word that you had helped to shape? This was one mystery he was determined to solveas soon as he had the chance of discussing it frankly. It was very hard for him to believe that Lys had made this choice of its own free will, if it knew the alternative that existed.

It was idle to speculate, to build pyramids od surmise on a foundation of ignorance.