It will all be better in the end and if it is not better then it must not be the end yet

Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.

The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.

mankind has no right to employ its genius in the creation of another intelligent species, then treat it like property. If we've come so far that we can create as God creates, then we have to learn to act with the justice and mercy of God.

As much as I've produced it looks to people like I must have written quickly, but it isn't that - because I put in in a sixty- or seventy-hour week.

... and she had worn bitterness as though it were a crown.

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.