Alexander Shmid

“I’m not afraid of the dark I know. It’s the dark I don’t that terrifies me.”
― Alan Dean Foster, Alien

“Just the basalt surface, plenty of cold, hard lava. And cold air, well below the line,’ Ash informed them. ‘We’d need suits to handle the temperature even if the air were breathable. If there’s anything alive out there, it’s tough.’ Dallas looked resigned. ‘I suppose it was unreasonable to expect anything else. Hope springs eternal. There’s just enough of an atmosphere to make vision bad. I’d have preferred no air at all, but we didn’t design this rock.’ ‘You never know.’ Kane was being philosophical again. ‘Might be something else’s idea of paradise.”
― Alan Dean Foster, Alien

“The trouble with computers, she thought, was that they had no intuitive senses. Only deductive ones. You had to ask the right question.”
― Alan Dean Foster, Alien

“This is the deep-space commercial tug Nostromo, registration number one eight zero, two four six, en route to Earth with bulk cargo crude petroleum and appropriate refinery. Calling Antarctica traffic control. Do you read me? Over.”
― Alan Dean Foster, Alien