It was a shameful thing that she had nothing of which to be ashamed.

It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue forever. And life had to act also as if little issues were big ones. To take a realistic attitude toward life and death meant that one lapsed into unreality. Into insanity. It was ironic that the only way to keep one's sanity was to ignore that one was in an insane world or to act as if the world were sane.

As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.

Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.

The brain, knowing that a person can't live forever in this world, rationalizes a future, or other-dimensional, world in which immortality is possible. In other words, religion is the earliest form of science fiction.

There are Universes begging for Gods, yet he hangs around this one looking for work.

Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book.