“All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.”

“Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.”

“Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.”

“Although we credit God with designing man, it turns out He's not sufficiently skilled to have done so. In point of fact, He unintentionally knocked over the first domino by creating a palette of atoms with different shapes. Electron clouds bonded, molecules bloomed, proteins embraced, and eventually cells formed and learned how to hang on to one another like lovebirds. He discovered that by simmering the Earth at the proper distance from the Sun, it instinctively sprouted with life. He's not so much a creator as a molecule tinkerer who enjoyed a stroke of luck: He simply set the ball rolling by creating a smorgasbord of matter, and creation ensued.”

“Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.”

“Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed.”

“It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.”