I suppose a suicide who holds a pistol to his skull feels much the same wonder at what will come next as I felt then. - H. G. Wells

Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as certainly they did not see it. They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands.

For a time I believed that mankind had been swept out of existence, and that I stood there alone, the last man left alive.

Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is not an insurance agent.