“It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" -- that one's own time and place is beyond cataclysm.”

“Everything is made to perish; the wonder of anything at all is that it has not already done so. No, he thought. The wonder of anything is that it was made in the first place. What persists beyond this cataclysm of making and unmaking?”

“Neither one nor the other, not a demon, but not a human either, no place no belong... I thought the only way was to carve out your own place, by force; that's how I survived. And by the time I knew what was happening, I was all alone...”

“Some people find comfort in the past. Others seek comfort in the future. Very few consider the most beautiful place and time: here and now.”

“I believe it is the duty of each of us to act as if the fate of the world depended on him. Admittedly, one man by himself cannot do the job. However, one man can make a difference. We must live for the future of the human race, and not for our own comfort or success.”

“The seasons do not push one another; neither do clouds race the wind across the sky. All things happen in their own good time.”