Forward the Foundation (Foundation, #7)

by Isaac Asimov

He would live longer with the problem filling him from end to end—and

but, of course, they would have to bring the gardener there first. It was unthinkable for the Emperor to be made to wait. It is one thing to be democratic, quite another to be inconvenienced.

ours is not a marriage of love, which fades in a year; it is a marriage of convenience, which can last as long as we both live.

Manella is one of those women invented for our quiet moments. She has no function at all, otherwise.”

If there is one thing that psychohistory tells me is inevitable, it is tax overgrowth.”