A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive.

Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment

Try LSD, 100mg intramuscular... I thought so.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now" "But God doesn't change" "Men do though

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

Something that had been a single cell, a cluster of cells, a little sac of tissue, a kind of worm, a potential fish with gills, stirred in her womb and would one day become a man--a grown man, suffering and enjoying, loving and hating, thinking, remembering, imagining. And what had been a blob of jelly within her body would invent a god and worship; what had been a kind of fish would create, and, having created, would become the battleground of disputing good and evil; what had blindly lived in her as a parasitic worm would look at the stars, would listen to music, would read poetry.