There's a right thing to do," Holden said. "You don't have a right thing, friend," Miller said. "You've got a whole plateful of maybe a little less wrong.

No one can blather on like a holy man with a trapped audience. Well, maybe a politician.

Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas.

The problem with living with miracles was that they made everything seem plausible.

You're the predator right up until you're prey.

Theological anthropology is a lot simpler when humans are the only ones with souls.

Optimism expressed as conservation of delta V.