“Could a being create the fifty billion galaxieseach with two hundred billion starsthen rejoice in the smell of burning goat flesh?”
“Wealth—one billion, two billion, what’s the difference? The difference is one billion—the same difference as flat broke, like me, and one billion.”
“It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.”
“It had travelled for a billion years. It could wait a billion more. This Green Hell, Aug 2012”
“I had them running for two months once, so about one-fifty billion miles a second - those big numbers, sometimes they seem to stare right back at you, don't they?”
“I don't want five hundred billion neural chips. I want guts.”