Don’t look for reason where it’s never been practiced. - Michael Bishop

The True Word. Once every quarter, once every new-style month, I preach it.
"The True Word on what? Everybody's got his own true word, you know."
"On how not to die, woman. The basis of every religion."
"No," Zoe said. Not every one of them; just the ones that don't know exactly what to do with the here-and-now.

Both God and man hold each other in equally beautiful contempt.

Who but a madman would grapple with mountains?