How'd you like to gaze at a beer can throughout eternity? It might not be so bad. There'd be nothing to fear.

I became educated to the fact that the greatest pain does not come zooming down from a distant planet, but from the depths of the heart. Of course, both could happen; your wife and child could leave you, and you could be sitting alone in your empty house with nothing to live for, and in addition the Martians could bore through the roof and get you.

How can justice fall victim, ever, to what is right?

Sometimes one must try anything, it is no disgrace. On the contrary, it is a sign of wisdom.

Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small... and you will escape the jealousy of the great.

Why does a man cry? he wondered. Not like a woman; not for that. Not for sentiment. A man cries over the loss of something, something alive. A man can cry over a sick animal that he knows won't make it. The death of a child: a man can cry for that. But not because things are sad. A man, he thought, cries not for the future or the past but for the present.

He entered the elevator and together they moved closer to god