It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all.

I have always lived in a world in which I'm just a spot in history. My life is not the important point. I'm just part of the continuum, and that continuum, to me, is a marvelous thing. The history of life, and the history of the planet, should go on and on and on and on. I cannot conceive of anything in the universe that has more meaning than that.

It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all.

All around the Mediterranean you'll find cultures that believe men can't control themselves and shouldn't have to try.

To the Chasmites, truth is determined by how well it fits their expectations, and doesn't that sound familiar? They have consistently refused to have a god contest, and I fear they will have to encounter the godlet rather forcibly before they believe there is anything there at all.

The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous absolutists, the sooner we can move along.

As vocabulary is reduced , so are the number of feelings you can express, the number of events you can describe, the number of the things you can identify! Not only understanding is limited, but also experience. Man grows by language. Whenever he limits language he retrogresses!