“Die in one universe and yet in another go on without a hitch. If this were true, the person who understood it would have conquered death. Would be invulnerable. Would be the Superman. There's a dizzying thrill in a philosophy that can only be tested by suicide -- and then never proven, only tested again by another attempt. And the person embarked on that series of tests, treading that trail of lives as if from boulder to boulder across the river of time -- no, out into the burning ocean of eternity -- what a mutant! Some new genesis, like a pale, poisonous daisy.”

“There's a dizzying thrill in a philosophy that can only be tested by suicide.”

“What is one person's diversion may be another's supreme test.”

“This life is a test-it is only a test.If it had been an actual life, you would have received furtherinstructions on where to go and what to do.Remember, this life is only a test.”

“Here's another test. Of any activity you do, aks yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?”

“This new war, like the previous one, would be a test of the power of machines against people and places; whatever its causes and justifications, it would make the world worse. This was true of that new war, and it has been true of every new war since...I knew too that this new war was not even new but was only the old one come again. And what caused it? It was caused, I thought, by people failing to love one another, failing to love their enemies.”