“We're endangered by our own success.”

“[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.”

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

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

“Here we begin frank speculation. And since we are speculating, we'll use those powerful pseudo-laws, the Principles of Mediocrity and Minimal Assumption.”

“Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all - no one's around to write horror stories.”

“One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.”