Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

The one thing that matters is the effort.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

'Alpha' is a very fast-moving book. It doesn't lend itself to laborious introspection and the navel-gazing that some stories can fall prey to.

I get a kick out of watching a team defense me. A player moves two steps in one direction and I hit it two steps the other way. It goes right by his glove and I laugh.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.