“No Gods Or Kings. Only Man. -Andrew Ryan”

“He liked living simply. And he liked living alone. He had grown to dislike physical affection. It was intrusive, and it bullied his self esteem, because he wasn't good at it.”

“from the end of John Shirley's Black Glass, something like: "the Singularity guys don't understand, they aren't copying us, our brains, just the noise we make”

“If the modern world were a patient in my care... I would diagnose it suicidal." - Dr. Sofia Lamb”

“In the country of the story the writer is king.”

“He is altogether selfish, she thought in some surprise, the only man I have ever sat and talked to alone, and I am impatient; he is simply not very interesting.”

“God! Whose hand was I holding?”