Oh, this faithless world! Someone must deliver them. You. If not you, who? You have been saved for a reason. Show them the old demons. Remind them of their fear. Apathy is death. Without darkness, there is no light. Without evil, there is no good. Make them choose. Dark or light. Where is the fear? Where are the heroes? If not now, when?

Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.

I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.

By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.

Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed.

One final bit of advice. The next time a senior administrator of the CIA tells you she has a national-security crisis Leave the bullshit in Cambridge.

The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece.