“Great persons, like great empires, leave their mark on history.”

“Then, as now, archaelogists and writers ventured where others feared to tread.”

“Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you’ve got a pretty neck”

“There are seven and a half billion people on this earth - somebody's got to get sucked into a vortex.”

“I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.”

“Who can know God's intentions? Who can know Hid Mind?" She looked at the coffin, lying there like a giant question mark. Like the monolith in 2001. One big fucking question, But at the end of the day, who need a God who'd let Michael get so lost that he'd do something like this? What was the point of a Devil if there was a God like that? Maybe there was just the Devil, the real God of this lousy world. Or maybe there was just nothing at all. And everybody was sitting around praying to a great big nothing, like people praying to airplanes, thinking they were gods. The world one big cargo cult.”

“There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.”