Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the question of whether there is a creator to a higher standard?

Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.

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.

No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?

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

Virtual reality is just air guitar writ large.