“These are the stories that the Dogs tell when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north. Then each family circle gathers at the hearthstone and the pups sit silently and listen and when the story's done… — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share Image
“The need of one human being for the approval of his fellow humans, the need for a certain cult of fellowship - a psychological, almost physiological need for approval of one's thought and action. A force that kept men from… — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share Image
Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the… — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share Image
Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists. — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share Image
My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over. — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share Image
Inside the time bubble we do not age. We age only when we are outside of it. — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share Image
The chain of life runs smoothly from one generation to the next and none of the links stand out except here and there a… — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share Image
“Man's inability to understand and appreciate the thought and viewpoint of another man would be a stumbling block which no amount of mechanical ability… — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share Image
Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe. — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share Image
I have not long to live. I have lasted more than a man's average allotted span, and while I still am hale and hearty,… — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share Image
I did not want to move. For I had the feeling that this was a place, once seen, that could not be seen again. If I left and then came back, it would not be the same; no matter how many times I might return to this particular spot the place and feeling would never be the same, something would… — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share
“Money here on Earth is more than the paper or the metal that you use for money, more than the rows of figures that account for money. Here on Earth you have given money a symbolism such as no medium of exchange has anywhere else I have ever known or heard of. You have made it a power and a… — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share
“Bridgeport, Wis. July 11, 1987 I write this letter to myself, so that the postmark may prove beyond controversy the day and year that it was written, and I shall not open it but shall place it among my effects against the day when someone, a member of my own family, God willing, may open it and read. And reading,… — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share
It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth,… — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share Image
