God is dead,' Nick said. 'They found his carcass in 2019. Floating in space near Alpha.' 'They found the remains of an organism advanced several thousand times over what we are,' Charley said. 'And evidently could create habitable worlds and populate them with living organisms, derived from itself. But that doesn't prove it was God.

The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow.

It's not what happened but how it is told.

I mean, knowing people, people are terrified of the unknown and they want to just kill the unknown.

Guilt -- if there was any guilt -- spread out and diffused itself over everybody and everything. . . . Perhaps at some point in time, at some spot in the world, a moment of responsibility existed.

There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.

A child of today can detect a lie quicker than the wisest adult of two decades ago. When I want to know what is true, I ask my children.