He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.
Vernor VingeLittle fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.
Vernor VingeSometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.
Vernor Vinge