I come down on the side of free will but I have sympathy for those who believe in fate because there is something about life which we feel we have no control over.

The hard rain nailed the night to the city.

I come down on the side of free will but I have sympathy for those who believe in fate because there is something about life which we feel we have no control over.

And the funny thing was if you made the best of it, if you smiled through every storm, the bad things were never as terrible as you expected them to be, and the good things were better than anything you could have wished for yourself.

After once having made the mistake of watching television news, I had worried for a while about an asteroid hitting the earth and wiping out human civilization. The anchorwoman had said it was not merely possible but probable. At the end of the report, she smiled.

I am my own worst enemy. This, more than any other trait, proves my fundamental humanity.

...he was part of a family whether he wanted to be or not, the family of humanity, more often than not a frustrating and contentious clan, flawed and often deeply confused, but also periodically noble and admirable, with a common destiny that every member shared.