Avram Davidson

"Life continued, the wheel turned, the earth moved, and even death—that delightful biological necessity—was an aspect of life."

"A querulous whine that was almost a question was succeeded by a deep gobble that was almost an answer."

"Everything meant something, still, some meanings were revealed sooner than others. And that some were seemingly never revealed in no way disproved the fact."

"“The fact that you know the questions,” he said, a mite grudgingly, “tends to make me think you might really know the answers."

"It is not in the nature of any people that it should willingly endure being ruled by another people, whether it is ruled ill or ruled well."

"But the Red Man denied that time, though it must always be paid for, could always be paid for in money."

"Where there is no bread, there is no philosophy."

"Clearly this was no time to ask if they should first define their terms. Nor, for that matter, had Socrates had to define the bowl of hemlock."