The Specters feast as vampires feast on blood, but the Specters’ food is attention. A conscious and informed interest in the world. The immaturity of children is less attractive to them.

You going to be a scientist when you grow up?” That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got.

He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotation mark on the lead. He laughed.

For a human being, nothing comes naturally, ' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.

A few minutes after he arrived, Lee was talking to a group of astronomers eager to learn what news he could bring them, for there are few natural philosophers as frustrated as astronomers in a fog.

She shook her head and whispered, "No. No! That can't be true. Impossible!""You think things have to be possible? Things have to be true!

I never expected you to understand, but I did expect you to be there.

I'm a believer, I believe in God, I believe in truth, I believe in righteousness.

God gives us the ugliness so we don't take the beautiful things in life for granted.

Thought alone cannot recognize spiritual truths no matter how highly developed thought is. It's impossible.

The real fabric of American society is not all those flags you see on people's cars...it's in the Bill of Rights and in our constitutional form of government.

I have found Jews to be more broad-minded than most whites on issues of race and politics, perhaps because they themselves have historically been victims of prejudice.

It is a symbol evoking a reality that touches the depths of the person ... the light of goodness that vanquishes evil, of love that overcomes hatred, of life that defeats death.

If you don't know you're in a state of grace, then you're vulnerable to the paralysis of the accusations of the enemy.

The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.

What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.