A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic.

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?

Honor does not have to be defended.

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

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.

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

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