“Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis.”

“I was remembering the things we had done together, the times we had had. It would have been pleasant to preserve that comradeship in the days that came after. Pleasant, but alas, impossible. That which had brought us together had gone, and now our paths diverged, according to our natures and needs. We would meet again, from time to time, but always a little more as strangers; until perhaps at last, as old men with only memories left, we could sit together and try to share them.”

“What tricks the mind is what the mind is glad to be tricked by.”

“Before you have faith you must believe, and before you believe there must be evidence of some sort to persuade the mind. Faith is remembering that evidence and holding to it against all that seems to challenge or contradict it.”

“The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.”

“There is always something to lose. But maybe more to gain.”

“The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.”