If faith makes people buy an entire package of myths and values without asking too many questions, scientists are only slightly better.

There is nothing like a crisis to define who you are.

...we're not eighteen anymore. We've lived. We've created things that last – things of joy, and things of burden.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

Let it all go, one foot in the grave and one bag packed. We shall go to our end in the warm glow of the past, burning up the memories, all the clutter given back.

Drowning yourself won't help, she told herself sternly. Now, drowning Will, on the other hand.

When you do you, you can't lose.

When cats sat staring into the fire they were thinking out problems.

Thinking men and women the world over are beginning to realize that patriotism is too narrow and limited a conception to meet the necessities of our time.

A billion could live off the earth; 6 billion living as we do is far too many, and you run out of planet in no time.

Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't.