I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I’ve been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn’t have. Somehow it was better to say one was a […]
Isaac Asimov Quotes
If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, […]
On Earth there is the custom of drinking liquids which have been fortified with alcohol. We find it stimulating.” – “Oh, yes. I am afraid, then, that I must decline. Ethyl alcohol would interfere most unpleasantly with my metabolism.” – “Why, so it does to Earthmen, too, but I understand, Dr. Tholan,” Drake replied. “Would […]
Then Priss arrived, draggin a volume of colorlessness in with him, a drabness that was unaffected by the noise and the absolute splendor (no other word would describe it – or else it was the two martinis glowing inside me) that filled the room.
