Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don't need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion.

This would have been less annoying had it been untrue.

Ah, books." Ziegler, smiling, came up behind me. "They bob like corks on an ocean. Float between worlds, messages in bottles.

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.

Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely.

Some things are taken away from you, some you leave behind and some you carry with you, world without end.

There are so many kinds of time. The time by which we measure our lives. Months and years. Or the big time, the time that raises mountains and makes stars. Or all the things that happen between one heartbeat and the next. Its hard to live in all those kinds of times. Easy to forget that you live in all of them.