All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong.

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide.

Even if you don't believe in God, you still have to believe in something that gives meaning to your life, and shapes your sense of the world. Such a belief is religious.

This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't.

The purpose of history is to explain the present - to say why the world around us is the way it is. History tells us what is important in our world, and how it came to be. It tells us what is to be ignored, or discarded. That is true power - profound power. The power to define a whole society.

Reality is always greater - much greater - than what we know, than whatever we can say about it.