Dreams haunted The Riverworld..

Burton did not believe in miracles . Nothing happened that could not be explained by physical principles if you knew all the facts ..

The brain, knowing that a person can't live forever in this world, rationalizes a future, or other-dimensional, world in which immortality is possibl….

It's a peculiarity of the Norwegian culture and of the English and American, too, that men are not supposed to cry. Stiff upper lip and all that. But….

Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book..

By this he meant that all events, therefore, all men, are interconnected in an unbreakable web. What man does, no matter how seemingly insignificant,….

Give us power, give us light To holdall love within our breast's small space..

It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue forever. And life had to act also as if little iss….

Beauty in this Iron Age must turn, From fluid living rainbow shapes to torn, And sootened fragments, ashes in an urn, On whose gray surface runes are….

Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural..

Reader, pray that soon this Iron Age Will crumble, and Beauty escape the rusting cage..

Can imagination act Perpendicular to fact? Can it be a kite that flies Till the Earth , umbrella-wise, Folds and drops away from sight?.

There are Universes begging for Gods, yet he hangs around this one looking for work..

Prometheus, I have no Titan's might, Yet I, too, must each dusk renew my heart, For daytime's vulture talons tear apart The tender alcoves built b….

Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got..

As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth..

Everybody should fear only one person, and that person should be himself ..

The way is open, comrades, free as Space Alone is free. The only gold is love, A coin that we have minted from the light Of others who have cared ….

It was a shameful thing that she had nothing of which to be ashamed..

Despite my vast interest in other universes and new ideas and space, travel and time travel, which by the way I think is impossible, the basic thing ….

This story is about love, which means that it is also about hate..