Fats Quote by Walter M. Miller, Jr

The wild black scavengers of the skies laid their eggs in season and lovingly fed their young. They soared high over prairies and mountains…

— Walter M. Miller, Jr

…to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.

— Walter M. Miller, Jr

Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history.

— Walter M. Miller, Jr

The trouble with being a priest was that you eventually had to take the advice you gave to others.

— Walter M. Miller, Jr

The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one society would be folly…

— Walter M. Miller, Jr

What's to be believed? Or does it matter at all? When mass murder's been answered with mass murder, rape with rape, hate with hate,…

— Walter M. Miller, Jr

It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children and blood for men.

— Walter M. Miller, Jr

But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.

— Walter M. Miller, Jr

Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize the error hungrily because it…

— Walter M. Miller, Jr

Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.

— Walter M. Miller, Jr

One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.

— Walter M. Miller, Jr

Soon the sun will set'- is that prophecy? No, it's merely an assertion of faith in the consistency of events.

— Walter M. Miller, Jr