The silence of the world could not rein back it's greed. Not any longer. Not when it had virtually won.

Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.' 'Will you be all right?' 'I'll be all right,' he said, and thought, And I'm going to die. Both those are true, too.

(Insanity) is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate - confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man.

How'd you like to gaze at a beer can throughout eternity? It might not be so bad. There'd be nothing to fear.

Either I've invented a whole new logic or, ahem, I'm not playing with a full deck.

I became educated to the fact that the greatest pain does not come zooming down from a distant planet, but from the depths of the heart. Of course, both could happen; your wife and child could leave you, and you could be sitting alone in your empty house with nothing to live for, and in addition the Martians could bore through the roof and get you.

No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it.