Look now — in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man who kills must be destroyed because this is a great sin, maybe the worst sin we know. And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, 'Use it well, use it wisely.' We put no checks on him. Go out and kill as many of a certain kind or classification of your brothers as you can. And we will reward you for it because it is a violation of your early training.

What do I want in a doctor? Perhaps more than anything else-a friend with special knowledge.

And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He does.

Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans

Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra.