Quotes by : Walter M. Miller Jr.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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