“The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?”

“I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.”

“Programming went back to the beginning of time. It was a little like the midden out back of his father's castle.”

“[The Universe] does not care, and even with all our science there are some disasters that we can not avert. All evil and good is petty before nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that can not be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.”

“You are enjoying the gift of genius. When ordinary people are confronted with multiple tragedies, the pain scarcely increases. They simple can't feel the extra burdens. But you have a greater capacity for suffering.”

“He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.”

“Though his invention worked superbly [...] his theory was a crock of sewage from beginning to end.”