The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.

No lifetime is long enough for those ... who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.

I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space.

Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.

God is found in this Life ... to wait for another is folly.

In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.