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

You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see.

I suppose the pursuit of fashion has always carried a price, monetary or otherwise.

I believed there were no Hypotheticals in the sense of consciously acting agents - conscious entities. There was only the process. The needles of evolution, endlessly knitting.

I suppose every decade gets the music it deserves.

Since Deacon Hollingshead's arrival in town last July the Dominion had been hard at work, cleansing New York City of moral corruption. "Corruption" is a popular word with the enthusiasts of the Dominion, usually uttered as a prelude to the knife, the docket, or the noose.

What had been released into the desert vacuum and starry oases of the galaxy was the inexorable logic of reproduction and natural selection. What followed was parasitism, predation, symbiosis, interdependency chaos, complexity, life.