“Somewhere out there, a higherform of sadism won the first round.Well, screw that. I'm not ready to bepwned.”

“No... we're not playing God. We're only attempting to set things right.”

“Somewhere out there, a higherform of sadism, won the first round.Well, screw that. I'm not ready to bepwned.”

“Prayer panacea for some, placebo to others. I thought of it as an epidural administered through the soul to anesthetize the mind.”

“Bad things happen to good people: The Jesus Christ Syndrome, I labeled it.”

“What use was time to those who'd soon achieve Digital Immortality?”

“The Tausennigan Ob'enn warlords look like cuddly teddy-bears?""Yes, they do, and they'd cheerfully exterminate your entire race for making that observation!""I guess that explains their rich milita...”

“Casting a curious gaze down on planet Earth, extra-terrestrial beings could well be forgiven for assuming that we humans are programmed in every move we make, by a palm-sized, oblong, slab of glass...”

“It was certainly true that I had no sense of humour in that I found nothing funny. I didnt know, and perhaps would never know, the feeling of compulsion to exhale and convulse in the very specific ...”

“Any person or thing of significance to you unconsciously plays a role in mirroring your own internal universe, just as you do theirs.”

“Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.”