Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

Learning the truth has become my life's love.

Until man is nothing, God can make nothing of him. - Martin Luther

Fear cripples faster than any implement of war.

I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.

Faith does not protect you. Medicine and airbags... Those are the things that protect you. God does not protect you. Intelligence protects you. Enlightenment. Put your faith in something with tangible results. How long has it been since someone walked on water? Modern miracles belong to science. Computers, vaccines, space stations... Even the divine miracle of creation. Matter from nothing... In a lab. Who needs God? No! Science is God!