People die. Love endures.

You never know when the truth will come home. You can’t choose the time. The time chooses you.

How baffling it is that we imagined cities incinerated by alien bombs and death rays when all they really needed was Mother Nature and time.

The answer is they didn't. They aren't here, Razor. They never were it's just us. It's always been just us.

I've always sucked at games of chance. Always hated them for that reason.

He didn’t like to see animals in captivity. When he looked into their eyes, something in their eyes looked back at him.

The nights did not come gently but seemed to slam down angrily upon the Earth.

Life is full of little ironies, but it's also pockmarked with some the size of that big rock in Australia.

Sullivan had her Crucifix Soldier and now I have mine. No. I am the soldier. Teacup is the cross.

In the early days, it was nearly omnipresent, a constant background noise, like the hum of traffic on a busy highway: the sound of a human being in pain.

Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.

Your calling can never fail you

What would be the significance of the candlelight, if there were no darkness? What would be the power of the stars over our minds, if there were no night?

While sleeping, we’re free to be what we really are, nothing more, nothing less.

My main point today is that usually one gets what one expects, but very rarely in the way one expected it.

I think I look cool. I don't know about the other three but I look cool, I am cool.

A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem.

I really have paid my dues! When I get to stay in fancy hotel suites these days I remind myself of that.

Listen to sounds beyond silence.

A new era of responsibility is here.