Maybe we’ve been taking nova precautions for a red dwarf. — Hal Clement

No one likes to be watched constantly by someone he can’t see.

The captain, thinking over this event afterward, realized that by his own lifelong standards he had a crew composed entirely of lunatics, with himself well to the front in degree of aberration; but he was fairly sure that this particular form of insanity was going to be useful.

What’s the use of a high school education if you can’t recall it when needed later on?