"I'm a Jewish boy from Jersey. I was born with a strong sense of right and wrong, and a strong sense that the world can be a ludicrous, unfair, inhumane place."

"For even if the life of my own Earth and this other Earth on which I stood had started out identically there still would be, along the way, millions of little deviations, no one of which, perhaps, by …"

"Aristippus is credited with having said that those who stop short of philosophy in the preparatory studies are like Penelope's suitors: they marry the maids, but not the mistress."

"Like all weddings it had left the strange feeling of futility, the slight sense of depression that comes to English people who have tried, from their strong sense of tradition, to be festive and senti…"

"Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant."