“thousands of memories, billions of people' but only one life”

“If you're "one in a million", and the world is full of seven billion people, that means there are seven thousand people just like you.”

“One billion people eat too much, and one billion, not enough.”

“...there were only fifteen thousand polar bears in the world, and five billion of me. To let one of them devour my all-too-common flesh would, if only slightly, help adjust the grievous imbalance.”

“And the beauty of the anthropic principle is that it tells us, against all intuition, that a chemical model need only predict that life will arise on one planet in a billion billion to give us a good and entirely satisfying explanation for the presence of life here.”

“It only took one imperfection. One. Then laughs would turn into screams [...]. People would turn into memories and memories into nightmares.”