There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.

We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.

The real universe is always one step beyond logic.

There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.

Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero... Heroes are painful, superheroes are a catastrophe. The mistakes of superheroes involve too many of us in disaster.

Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure.

It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.