No matter how wonderful a sentence is, if it doesn't add new and useful information, it should be removed.

The trouble with God isn't that He so seldom makes Himself known to us... He's holding you and me and everybody else by the scruff of the neck practically _constantly... Contentedly adrift in the cosmos, were you?... That is a perfect description of a non-epiphany, that rarest of moments, when God Almighty lets go of the scruff of your neck and lets you be human for a little while.

Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first.

That’s the attractive thing about war,” said Rosewater. “Absolutely everybody gets a little something.

You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything–and I advise you to do the same.

I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still.

Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.