Mothers burning inside the risen suns of their children.

I'm not going anywhere, " she told me that night. But until we are old ladies--a cypress age, a Sawtooth age--I will continue to link arms with her, in public, in private, in a panic of love.

the gravity of wound to fist

We shall know the truth and the truth shall free our souls.

Real problems in life are those related to your wellbeing and the wellbeing of your loved ones... Everything else is NOT a problem!

I wonder if I were to have an X-ray at the little hospital, would the machine see my grief? Is it like rust, arheum about the heart?

To win it all, winners have to be obsessive about the fundamentals and doing the little things right.

If space suits looked less like marshmallows, I'd be more interested in going to the moon.

I would suggest to you that at this moment you are the only self that you have ever had; you've never had a childhood; there wasn't a five-minute-ago time.

I think that Rodney Stark studies of new religious movements in the modern world give us some insights into the kinds of questions that we can ask about early Christianity.

Most people enjoy the sight of their own handwriting as they enjoy the smell of their own farts.

And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')

If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked.