Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.

There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.

The final end of Eternity, and the beginning of Infinity

The young specialist in English Lit, ...lectured me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century they were proved to be wrong. It follows that the one thing we can say about our modern "knowledge" is that it is wrong.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

The significant chemicals of living tissue are rickety and unstable, which is exactly what is needed for life.