Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.

You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.

General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.

The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.

Do you think it's possible that things that seem to be discrete in three dimensions might all be part of the same bigger object in four dimensions? ...What if humanity- that collective noun we so often employ- really is, at a higher level, a singular noun? What it what we perceive in three dimensions as seven billion individual human beings are really all just aspects of one giant being?

How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.