If a person survives an ordinary span of sixty years or more, there is every chance that his or her life as a shapely story has ended and all that remains to be experienced is epilogue. Life is not over, but the story is.

I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.

People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I think it's a much better argument against foxholes.

Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency.

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.

The arts put man at the center of the universe, whether he belongs there or not. Military science, on the other hand, treats man as garbage - and his children, and his cities, too. Military science is probably right about the contemptibility of man in the vastness of the universe. Still - I deny that contemptibility, and I beg you to deny it, through the creation of appreciation of art.

Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe.