Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.

It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" -- that one's own time and place is beyond cataclysm.

The clock is the most sacred thing in a hospital.

We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.

Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for

No... souls are just counters for churches to collect, all the same value, like nails. No, what makes man man is mind; it's not a thing, it's a quality, and minds aren't all the same value; they're better or worse, and the better they are, the more they mean.

The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.