Fooling laymen with science is sometimes so easy it should be criminal.

Now I'm a God, but tomorrow, when you have to stop me from playing with dead things again, you'll be right back to calling me an idiot, won't you?

The problem with people who say monsters don't really exist is that they're almost never saying it to the monsters." —Alice Healy

There comes a point when you need to get over the fear and get on with your life, and a lot of people don’t seem to be capable of that anymore. From blood tests to gated communities, we have embraced the cult of fear, and now we don’t seem to know how to put it back where it belongs.

And then everything was in the hands of gravity, which has never had much love for the terminally stupid.

Children's games are stronger than you remember once you've grown up and left them behind. They're always fair, and never kind.

If anything, global response to the Rising only confirmed something that many Australians had quietly believed for quite some time: If forced to live in Australia for a year, most of the world's population would simply curl up in a fetal ball and die of terror.