My special situation was that I was the son and grandson of architects. And so I saw building. We were building the city, and that was exciting.

Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.

Some automatic device clicked in her big brain, and her knees felt weak, and there was a chilly feeling in her stomach. She was in love with this man. They don't make memories like that anymore

Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.

The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. . . The two chief teachings of this religion are these: Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

Einstein's E=mc2 is an extraordinary concept. So radical: matter and energy are two phases of the same sort of general stuff. There's only one other idea that radical: Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.