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, […]
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.
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 […]
