“They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds.”

“You just don't have faith!" Frank repeated."Well I hope I never get it! It's like being hit by a hammer in the head!”

“They were so ignorant! Young men and women, educated very carefully to be apolitical, to be technicians who thought they disliked politics, making them putty in the hands of their rulers, just like...”

“The beauty of Mars exists in the human mind, he said in that dry factual tone, and everyone stared at him amazed. Without the human presence it is just a collection of atoms, no different than any ...”

“Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.”

“The intense thereness of it-haecceity Sax had called it once, when John had asked him something about his religious beliefs-I believe in haecceity, Sax had said, in thisness, in here-and-nowness, i...”

“Only super-efforts count.”

“I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me.”

“That is what a well-guarded prayer life can reveal about us, that our trust is not in ourselves but in seeking God's strength for what we do. Prayer is not a substitute for action, but prayer under...”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”