We had never developed a sense of history as such; all we knew, if we ever thought about it, was that there had been others before us and that we wer… - Walter Tevis

"Would you show me how to make an omelette?"
She looked shocked, and said nothing.
Then from the sink the other woman's voice said, "Men don't cook."
The woman beside me hesitated a moment, and then said softly, "This man is different, Mary. He's a Reader."

He thought, looking at the cat, if only you were the intelligent species on this world. And then, smiling wryly, maybe you are.

"Is there a God?" I said. "I mean, are you in touch, telepathically, with any kind of God?"
"No. I'm not in touch with anything like that. As far as I know, there is no God."
"Oh," I said.
"It doesn't bother you," the voice said. "You may think it does; but it doesn't. You're really on your own. You've been learning that."