“Humanity is a spectator sport. God is the spectator.”

“Nothing is harder on the nerves than hope.”

“Damnation is eternal. Thats the whole point. Otherwise, what good would it do you?”

“God exists. He has one wicked sense of humor, and right now he’s having a grand old time punking the planet.”

“John raised an eyebrow. “So you wouldn’t date someone like you?”“Oh, hell, no. I’m insane, but that would be nuts.”

“Damnation is eternal. That’s the whole point. Otherwise, what good would it do you?”

“We realized that among us, among all the races, we had a staggering fund of knowledge and of techniques - that working together, by putting together all this knowledge and capability, we could arri...”

“It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.”

“Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.”

“Are we all just Dark Age doctors, swearing by our leeches? We crave a greater science. We want to be proven wrong.”

“I'm watching her talk. Watching her jaw move and collecting her words one by one as they spill from her lips. I don't deserve them. Her warm memories. I'd like to paint them over the bare plaster w...”

“Zombies can't believe the energy we waste on nonfood pursuits.”