Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and self-sacrifice would …

- Walter M. Miller, Jr.

What's to be believed? Or does it matter at all? When mass murder's been answered with mass murder, rape with rape, hate with hate, there's no longer…

- Walter M. Miller, Jr.

When Holy Church occasionally hinted that she still considered her authority to be supreme over all nations and superior to the authority of states, …

- Walter M. Miller, Jr.

The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one society would be foll…

- Walter M. Miller, Jr.

Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize the error hungrily because it has a pleasanter tast…

- Walter M. Miller, Jr.

One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.

- Walter M. Miller, Jr.

....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.

- Walter M. Miller, Jr.

Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.

- Walter M. Miller, Jr.

Speak up, destiny, speak up! Destiny always seems decades away, but suddenly it's not decades away; it's right now. But maybe destiny is always right…

- Walter M. Miller, Jr.