Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one.

Authors always take rejection badly. They equate it with infanticide.

The equally is a political theory, but no a practical politics.

however long we have to live, there are never enough springs.

Of the four billion life forms which have existed on this planet, three billion, nine hundred and sixty million are now extinct. We don't know why. Some by wanton extinction, some through natural catastrophe, some destroyed by meteorites and asteroids. In the light of these mass extinctions it really does seem unreasonable to suppose that Homo sapiens should be exempt. Our species will have been one of the shortest-lived of all, a mere blink, you may say, in the eye of time.

Love, always love. Perhaps that’s what we’re all looking for.

There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.