"I know we’re going to die. There’s three of us who are going to do something about it."

“I do what I've trained my whole life to do. I watch the ball. I keep my eye on the ball. I never stop watching. I watch it as it sails past me and lands in the catcher's mitt, a perfect and glorious strike three.”

“People have the inner resources to become anything they want to be. Challenge just becomes the vehicle for tapping into those inner resources.”

“Stand up and walk. Move forward.”

“It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons. It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.”

“Few people get to earn a living at what they like to do and there are hazards in any profession. Football is something I was made for. I gave the game all I could for as long as I could. I guess my only regret was that my career was too short.”

“We have a moral obligation to be interesting, for our gospel is loaded with life-and-death interest for people.”

“You might be afraid of the dark, but the dark is not afraid of you. That’s why the dark is always close by.”

“All the human beings I met were either sure that there would be no afterlife or else that they would get preferential treatment in the hereafter.”

Source : Philip Jose Farmer (2010). “Riverworld: Including To Your Scattered Bodies Go & The Fabulous Riverboat”, p.24, Macmillan