Guilt is a tireless horse. Grief ages into sorrow, and sorrow is an enduring rider.

Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more than surrender.

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.

What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.

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.

Life had not taught me to distrust ministers, but it had taught me to trust no one more than dogs.

...I felt fear enter the halls of my mind, but I didn't give it the keys to every room.