The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.

Religion is not something separate and apart from ordinary life. It is life - life of every kind viewed from the standpoint of meaning and purpose: life lived in the fuller awareness of its human quality and spiritual significance.

Chemistry is, well technically, chemistry is the study of matter. But I prefer to see it as the study of change.

It's kind of funny. When I got my diagnosis - cancer - I said to myself, 'Why me?' And then, the other day, when I got the good news, I said the same thing.

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.

First, never go against the best light you have; second, take care that your light be not darkness.

In hindsight, I realized I could see into the future. Which is kind of like having premonitions of flashbacks.

the greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die