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

[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a….

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

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

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….

To capture the pawn, threaten the queen..

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..

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

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

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

Along with a dozen other students I had dissected a human cadaver and sorted its contents by size, color, function, and weight. There was nothing ple….

Stupid people do stupid things, but people who are smart enough can do something really stupid..

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

If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it's because I'm also a realist..

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….

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

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….

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

Some pious men may find this truth unorthodox and bitter: But Nature, Chance, and Time ensure survival of the fitter!.

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