Later that summer, as rain fell, such a moment shimmered and paused on the brink, and then began the ancient dance of numbers: two, four, eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and a new life took root and began...
But Schrödinger said that the cat isn’t actually alive or dead unless and until the man outside opens the box to see that the cat is alive or dead. Nico thought that over. You could listen to hear if...
Writing my own novels in the '90s...I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality would require explanation and defense in a world rocked and ruled by religious fervor.
In the beginning, Scripture taught, there was the Word, and Danny would come to believe that the two great gifts his God had given to the species He loved were time, which divides experience, and lang...
Trust in God could impose an additional burden on good people slammed to their knees by some senseless tragedy. An atheist might be no less staggered by such an event, but nonbelievers often experienc...
Out whose side they were on. Even Fat
I'll take honest arrogance over fake humility any day.
And you believe you will succeed, where God has failed me?
Tidy up before leaving for the day. When
What unnatural words. Always and forever! Those aren't human words, Jim. Not even stones are always and forever.
No one who does not live with constant pain can imagine the toll it takes. The way it grinds you down. The sheer damnable tedium of it.
I still have a headache powder saved up,
Hair and crumbs and unidentifiable orts to be vacuumed,
You know what? I really resent the idea that the only reason someone might be good or moral is because they're religious. I do what I do, Anne said, biting off each word, without hope of reward or fea...
They spoke then, with the dear and ordinary intimacy of the well-married in the eye of a storm. [369]
Its not lying, it's remembering things the way they should have been.
Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between ‘That doesn’t make sense’ and ‘I don’t understand.’ Then I must be very wisdom. I don’t understand anything.
There was a real sweetness to that man: a special sort of gentleness that you see sometimes in people who've been hurt bad but don't want revenge. [Bessie about James]
He's not a bad guy, John. It's human nature. He wanted it to be some mistake I made that he wouldn't have made, some flaw in me that he didn't share, so he could believe it wouldn't have happened to h...
I movin' to Arizona! Dammit, there is nothin' there but gravel and scorpions.