Theodore Sturgeon

"As Adam said when his wife fell out of the tree—Eve’s dropping again."

"That’s fairly common. We don’t believe anything we don’t want to believe."

"The most human thing about anyone is a thing he learns and … and earns. It’s a thing he can’t have when he’s very young; if he gets it at all, he gets it after a long search and a deep conviction. Aft…"

"Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that’s performing the logic."

"That Heel. That lousy wart on the nose of progress."

"Pleasure, the outer edge of ecstasy, was in the dour days of Protestantism, considered sinful in itself, wherever gained; Rome held specifically that any or all sexual pleasure was sinful. And for all…"

"Faith is a beautiful thing. So are forest fires, and the color of gangrene. I think faith—especially capital-F Faith—is more dangerous and more disgusting than either. It is a substitute for thought."

"An ethic isn’t a fact you can look up. It’s a way of thinking."