War without end. Well, what was history without that? And how would having the stars change anything?

No monkey ever reheated a frozen burrito.

Theological anthropology is a lot simpler when humans are the only ones with souls.

No rest for the wicked, no peace for the good.

You're the predator right up until you're prey.

If life transcends death, then I will seek for you there. If not, then there too.

Too many dots," Miller said. "Not enough lines.

Stars are better off without us.

The problem with living with miracles was that they made everything seem plausible.

There's a right thing to do," Holden said. "You don't have a right thing, friend," Miller said. "You've got a whole plateful of maybe a little less wrong.

Optimism expressed as conservation of delta V.

For the first time I realized I could be more than a crawling little pile of bones and flesh in a onesie.

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems

Civility is not a specific code of behavior as much as it is a call to unrelenting preemptive thought, and steady effort to care about influence on others.

Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

Blessing will happen to you and your family throughout the year because you faster in January.

Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it.

Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.

You ain't gotta be a dope boy to have money.

I regret very much that I have painted a picture that requires any description.