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

If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn't the only morality that evolution produces be the kind Bill Clinton had - being sorry you got caught?

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

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

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

That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunchest creationist. But that it can transform one species into another — that, in fact, has never been observed.

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