You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by your dead father and mother if I allowed you to expose yourself to such temptation.' Well, I know I'm not a Christian and I'm beginning to doubt whether I'm a gentleman,' said Philip.

First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives.

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.

Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.

The arguments for immortality, weak when you take them one by one, are no more cogent when you take them together... For my part, I cannot see how consciousness can persist when its physical basis has been destroyed, and I am too sure of the interconnection of my body and my mind to think that any survival of my my consciousness apart from my body would be in any sense a survival of myself.