“Immortals are never alien to one another.”

“How dearly, at one time, and how cheaply at another, does Genius purchase immortal fame!”

“Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.”

“Well, he sighed to no one in particular, and looked up into yet another alien sky. Here we are again.”

“Immortal gods! how much does one man excel another! What a difference there is between a wise person and a fool!”

“They’d lived all their life on Earth; they knew nothing but the Earth. They had never really touched an alien concept, and that was all this concept was. It was not really as slimy as it seemed. It was only alien. There were a lot of alien things that could make one’s hair stand up on end while in their proper alien context they were fairly ordinary.”

“I could not do this, I realized, if I were immortal. This degree of love of life and of one another is granted, I saw for once and for ever, not to immortals, but to those who live briefly and always under the shadow of death and loss.”

“Never, believe me,
Appear the Immortals,
Never alone.”

“People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel”

“To himself every one is an immortal: he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.”