Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.

If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods.

As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.

We always thought the living Earth was a thing of beauty. It isn’t. Life has had to learn to defend itself against the planet’s random geological savagery.

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

Look, whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There is always a last time for everything.) Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.

I don't think there is such a thing as as a real prophet. You can never predict the future. We know why now, of course; chaos theory, which I got very interested in, shows you can never predict the future.