A persistent rumor has circulates in the USA: There are two intelligent races living on the surface of planet Earth: the standard people and the hungarians.

Isaac Asimov


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He was going mad and knew it, and
somewhere deep inside a bit of sanity was screaming, struggling to fight off
the hopeless flood of black terror. It was very horrible to go mad and know
that you were going mad -- to know that in a little minute you would be here
physically and yet all the real essence would be dead and drowned in the
black madness. For this was the Dark -- the Dark and the Cold and the Doom.

Isaac Asimov


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Las historias de viaje en el tiempo son demasiado divertidas para ser eliminadas simplemente por consideraciones mundanas sobre impracticabilidad o incluso imposibilidad.

Isaac Asimov

Tag: time-travel



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You mean that this is a matter of patriotism and traders aren't patriotic?"
"Notoriously not. Pioneers never are.

Isaac Asimov

Tag: exploration trade pioneers



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Were I to use the wits the good Spirits gave me,” he said, “then I would say this lady can not exist - for what sane man would hold a dream to be reality. Yet rather would I not be sane and lend belief to charmed, enchanted eyes.

Isaac Asimov

Tag: compliments magnifico romantic-praise



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For a wise man, I have been told, once said, ‘Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate in empty phrases.’ But alas, my lady, I am but a mass of empty phrases, it would seem.

Isaac Asimov

Tag: praise gratitude magnifico



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The thanks of a weak one are but of little value," he muttered, "but you have them, for truly, in this past week, little but scraps have come my way- and for all my body is small, yet is my appetite unseemly great.

Isaac Asimov

Tag: appreciation thankfulness thanks appetite magnifico



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The clown’s eyes sidled towards her, then drew away quickly. “But they kept me away from you earlier-and, on my word, you may laugh, but I was lonely for missing friendship.

Isaac Asimov

Tag: friendship magnifico



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And so it happened, that when others bent their knee, he refused and added loudly that his ancestors in their time bowed no knee to any stinking mayor. And in his ancestors’ time the mayor was elected anyhow, and kicked out at will, and that the only people that inherited anything by right of birth were the congenital idiots.

Isaac Asimov

Tag: politics elections insubordination mayor



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I am afraid a monster is grown that will devour all of us. Yet we must fight him.

Isaac Asimov

Tag: fear despair hopeless hopelessness monster



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