Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet. — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share Image
It was a place without a single feature of the space-time matrix that he knew. It was a place where nothing yet had happened - an utter emptiness. There was neither light nor dark: there was nothing here but emptiness. — 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.… — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share Image
“Money here on Earth is more than the paper or the metal that you use for money, more than the rows of figures that… — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share Image
“Bridgeport, Wis. July 11, 1987 I write this letter to myself, so that the postmark may prove beyond controversy the day and year that… — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share Image
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
