It was written in some holy book, apparently, so that made it okay, and probably compulsory.

If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!

History tends to change people who think they're changing it.

Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your own home.

And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people. As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up.

What was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it?

He was determined to discover the underlying logic behind the universe. Which was going to be hard, because there wasn't one.