No vision of God and heaven ever experienced by the most exalted prophet can, in my opinion, match the vision of the universe as seen by Newton or Einstein

Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.

Boasts are wind and deeds are hard.

Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.

My feeling is that as far as creativity is concerned, isolation is required. Creation is embarrassing. For every new good idea you have, there are a hundred, ten thousand foolish ones.

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn.