God is found in this Life ... to wait for another is folly.

If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include the truth of contact or be forever hollow.

I now understand the need for faith - pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith - as a small life preserver in the wild and endless sea of a universe ruled by unfeeling laws and totally indifferent to the small, reasoning beings that inhabit it.

Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced to die by them.

You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.

If our god's work is to be done in our time, we must do it ourselves.

It is a mystery, and to tell the truth, I am intrigued by mysteries even if this is to be my last week of enjoying them. I would welcome some glimmer of understanding but, failing that, working on the puzzle will suffice.