“why Human should not look at the past?”
“If the past, by bringing surprises, did not resemble the past previous to it (what I call the past's past), then why should our future resemble our current past?”
“Why should I wake when I'm half past dead?”
“Why should I worry about uncreating so much of human history? Why should I care that it will be worse than forgotten, that it will be unknown? Why should that seem to be a crime, when all of human history is an eyeblink compared to the billions of years the stars have shone?”
“Lancelot considered his cup.'He is inhuman,; he said at last. "But why should he be human? Are angels supposed to be human?”
“How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy.”