—Blessed are they who expect the worst, for they shall get it! — John Brunner

—If I ever get good at hospital politics, I think I shall start to hate myself.

A cripple can still be a person, but in what sense is a lunatic human? Humanity’s in the mind, in the tangle of thoughts spun by the brain, and once that’s gone what remains is human only in outward shape.

Did you never hear it said that what sets the genius apart from the plodder is the ability to see what happens and not what he expects to happen?