It is at least scientifically respectable to postulate that at the centre of a black hole the laws of nature no longer apply. Since most scientists are just a bit religious and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific we find humanity in a comical position. His scientific intellect believes in the possibility of miracles inside a black hole while his religious intellect believes in them outside it.

We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.

Couldn't a fire outrun a galloping horse?

One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.

You'll get back to where you came from.

What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.