Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission.

It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams

Your brain has a trillion neurons and every neuron has ten thousand little dendrites. The system of inter-communication is awe-inspiring.

The world is shrinking into a kind of technological funnel. I think people are drawn into their technological devices, and this becomes a kind of subjective universe, into which much of the rest of the world simply does not enter.

I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.

A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot.

Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.