The state of mind which I put myself when I tell a story is one in which superstition flourishes very easily. And I welcome that because it helps me.

One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen.

Tell him, we are not devils but we have friends who are.

We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.

People are too complicated to have simple labels.

It's only through honesty and courage that science can work at all. The Ptolemaic understanding of the solar system was undermined and corrected by the constant pressure of more and more honest reporting.

...his face bore an expression that mingled haughty disdain with a tender, ardent sympathy, as if he would love all things if only his nature could let him forget their defects.