"We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith."

“Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries Is not the goal but the exercise.”

“Ideas are only as good as their execution”

“My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over.”

Source : "Skirmish: The Great Short Fiction of Clifford D.Simak". Book by Clifford D. Simak. Introduction, p. 9, 1977.

“I think when you wear the brand anyway, why not go out and try to promote it and make it as cool as you can? The fact that I can continue to do what I've always done and kind of become the face of that brand is to me, kind of just makes sense. It doesn't make sense not to do it I guess.”

“A farm includes the passion of the farmer's heart, the interest of the farm's customers, the biological activity in the soil, the pleasantness of the air about the farm -- it's everything touching, emanating from, and supplying that piece of landscape. A farm is virtually a living organism. The tragedy of our time is that cultural philosophies and market realities are squeezing life's vitality out of most farms. And that is why the average farmer is now 60 years old. Serfdom just doesn't attract the best and brightest.”

“People romanticize, I think, this notion of life. But life at all costs is not life, it's ego-extension.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“The supernatural does not exist.”

Source : Camille Flammarion (2012). “Death and Its Mystery”, p.39, David & Charles

“Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.”