"Alexander the Great conquers the world, and then what? He builds a rocket ship and invades Mars." P. 112

"Two roads diverged in an unreal city, and the future was dead." P. 178

"[...] and from one end of the earth to the other, the gods were silent." P. 228

"Time moved in two directions, because every step into the future carried a memory of the past [...]" P. 428

"It is on o'clock in the afternoon. The wind is blowing from the north, and the sparrow that was sitting on the telephone wire is gone." P. 610

"People die, and the world goes on, and whatever we can do to help each other out, well, that's what we do, isn't it?" P. 781

"The gods looked down from their mountain and shrugged." P. 878

"[...] and what a grand and beautiful world it was if you didn't stop to look at it too closely." P. 901

"God was nowhere, he said to himself, but life was everywhere, and death was everywhere, and the living and the dead were joined." P. 1067