The Dutch at close proximity looked much like Americans, apart from their peculiar uniforms, and so it was their uniforms I fired at, half convinced ….

And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it..

Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit..

I believed there were no Hypotheticals in the sense of consciously acting agents - conscious entities. There was only the process. The needles of evo….

Times like this, with the wind moving the grass and curling around her like a huge cool hand, Tess felt the world as a second presence, as another pe….

Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don't need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion..

This would have been less annoying had it been untrue..

The world is what it is and won't be bargained with..

You must not make the mistake of thinking that because nothing lasts, nothing matters..

To capture the pawn, threaten the queen..

Goddamn you," Jacob said. "There's no damnation, Jacob. No Heaven but the forest and no God but the hive..

I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive..

We live in an enlightened age, however, an age that has learned to see and to value other living things as they are, not as we wish them to be. And t….

Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint..

I loved Molly. Or at least I told myself I did. Or, if what I felt for her was not love, it was at least a plausible imitation, a convincing substitu….

To fire a bullet into the heart or brains of one's fellow man even a fellow man striving to do the same to you creates what might be called an unassi….

Consciousness," according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way a….

It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen..

Ecstasy hates company..

For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising lik….

Some things are taken away from you, some you leave behind and some you carry with you, world without end..