In the end, death came uniformly to all, and all extracted as much satisfaction from their dying as this essentially graceless process could afford. The Last Castle (1966)
You emphasize morality. But the ultimate basis of morality is survival. What promotes survival is good; what induces mortifaction is bad. The Last Castle (1966)
The life we’ve been leading couldn’t last forever. It’s a wonder it lasted as long as it did. The Last Castle (1966)
Claghorn had long insisted that no human condition endured forever, with the corollary that the more complicated such a condition, the greater its susceptibility to change. The Last Castle (1966)
I know that the history of man is not his technical triumphs, his kills, his victories. It is a composite, a mosaic of a trillion pieces, the account of each man’s accommodation with his conscience. This is the true history of the race. The Last Castle (1966)