“The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual.”

“Human forms are perpetuated through sex, and sex also perpetuates human consciousness.”

“The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be descended from animals is degrading to human dignity.”

“The decisions are made in the moment they are made.”

“The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.”

“Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the rest of our lives.”

“She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it.”

“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.”

“It is probable that the future will be more limited by the slow evolution of the human animal and the corresponding human laws, social institutions, and organizations than it will be by the rapid evolution of technology.”

“The pope notwithstanding, the human species is by no means the pinnacle of evolution. Evolution has no pinnacle and there is no such thing as evolutionary progress.”