When I die I won't go to heaven or hell; there will just be nothingness.

The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own "national security" to be paramount above all other consideration.

It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.

It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?

Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.

Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is no way around them.