Walter M. Miller, Jr. Quotes

That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.

Science Fiction has always attracted more talented writers than it could reward adequately.

M'Lord, I know from history that once upon a time in a much earlier Church, a vocation to the priest...

To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. B...

After the Guam conference ended, it was reported that Pope Gregory ceased to pray for peace in the w...

Ignorance is king. Many would not profit by his abdication. Many enrich themselves by means of his d...

What did you do for them, Bone? Teach them to read and write? Help them rebuild, give the, Christ, h...

I mean Jesus never asked a man to do a damn thing that Jesus didn’t do.

The visitor shrugged. "Like euthanasia? I'm sorry, Father, I feel that the laws of a society are wha...

As Brother Francis readily admitted, his mastery of pre-Deluge English was far from masterful yet. T...

But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would h...

When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs ...

Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history.

Ignorance is king. Many would not profit by his abdication. Many enrich themselves by means of his d...

He did not like saying it. To communicate a fact seemed always to lend it fuller existence.

But you've always used words so wordily in crafty defense of your Trinity, although He never needed ...

You heard him say it? 'Pain's the only evil I know about.' You heard that?"The monk nodded solemnly....

The visage of Lucifer mushroomed into hideousness above the cloudbank, rising slowly like some titan...

The closer men came to perfecting for themselves a paradise, the more impatient they became with it,...

Steel screams when it's forged, it gasps when it's quenched. It creaks when it goes under load. I th...

Be for Man the memory of Earth and Origin. Remember this Earth. Never forget her, but — never come b...

Perhaps in his loneliness he had acquired the silent conviction that he was 'the last', the one, the...

Then his singing paused, and he stood for a moment to cry out softly in the vernacular of the region...

There were spaceships again in that century, an dthe ships were manned by fuzzy impossibilities that...

There were spaceships again in that century, and the ships were manned by fuzzy impossibilities that...

He prayed for the recovery of that inward privacy which the purpose of his vigil demanded that he se...

And how will this come to pass?' He paused and lowered his voice. ' In the same way all change comes...

It is not what you meant to say, but it is what your saying meant.

What did you do for them, Bone? Teach them to read and write? Help them rebuild, give them Christ, h...