In our time the search for extraterrestrial life will eventually change our laws, our religions, our philosophies, our arts, our recreations, as well as our sciences. Space, the mirror, waits for life to come look for itself there.

I have four daughters and eight grandchildren. My soul lives on in them. That's immortality. That's the only immortality I care about.

A single face turned upward toward all Time One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace.

First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right.

A conglomerate heap of trash, that's what I am. But it burns with a high flame.

From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living. Did all dying people feel this way, as if they had never lived? Did life seem that short, indeed, over and done before you took a breath? Did it seem this abrupt and impossible to everyone, or only to himself, here, now, with a few hours left to him for thought and deliberation?

I'll be darned!" said Douglas. "I never thought of that. That's brilliant! It's true. Old people never were children!" "And it's kind of sad," said Tom, sitting still."There's nothing we can do to help them.