- Why me? - That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber? - Yes. - Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.

I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, "Please - a little less love, and a little more common decency."

...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.

Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.

I urge you to please notice when you are happy.

I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and punishments that were fair.

I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).