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

Stupid people do stupid things, but people who are smart enough can do something really stupid.

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.

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

There's no drug that'll make a stupid man smart.

Ecstasy hates company.

An honest book is almost as good as a friend.