“From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.”

“If we stand by the eagle, fish will die; if we stand by the fish, eagle will die! This dilemma has been created by the random evolutionary process. There is no goodness, there is no justice and there is no intelligence in here. We are living in a primitive and flawed order.”

“If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we are standing... We may only go in circles...”

“Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.”

“Time itself is a thing, so it seems to me, that stands solidly like a fence of iron palings with its endless row of years; and we flow past like Gyoll, on our way to a sea from which we shall return only as rain.”

“Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.”