Time and tide, he thought. The cycle of life. Ending in this, the last twilight. Before the silence of death. He perceived in this a micro-universe, complete.

Everything is true, ' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.''Will you be all right?''I'll be all right, ' he said, and thought, And I'm going to die. Both those are true, too.

There, at her console, he dialed 594: pleased acknowledgement of husband's superior wisdom in all matters

You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity.

The tyranny of an object, he thought. It doesn't know I exist.

You mean old books?""Stories written before space travel but about space travel.""How could there have been stories about space travel before --""The writers, " Pris said, "made it up.

That's because you're a highly moral person. I'm not. I don't judge, not even myself.

Mankind needs more empathy.

An android, ” he said, “doesn’t care what happens to another android. That’s one of the indications we look for."“Then, ” Miss Luft said, “you must be an android.

I wonder, he wondered, if any human has ever felt this way before about an android.

To be successful, you must leave the church walls behind and go out

No matter how grave the secret, how imperative absolute silence, someone would always feel the urge to confess, and an unleashed secret is a terrible force.

Architecture was always the plan. I always figured I'd just do theater on the side.

We need great prophetic leaders in religion and in spirituality... what we are getting is lacking in vision... not able to engage with the diversity of the culture.

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad.

I wanted to create something that would live on forever, beyond my time, and out of that came Cashmere Mist.

I was a pretty bad person early in my life.

We know that a ready amnesty tends to be an invitation to more illegal entries.

Clearly the West Indies are going to play their normal game, which is what they normally do