Years compress like fault lines in the mind. While everything else changes, the mind remembers exactly what it wants to remember. A decade can be los… - Arthur C. Clarke

Then he [The Star Child] waited, marshaling his thoughts and brooding over his still untested powers. For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next. But he would think of something.

The Lassans were insatiably inquisitive, and the concept of privacy was almost unknown to them. A Please Do Not Disturb sign was often regarded as a personal challenge, which led to interesting complications...

So the problem of Evil never really existed. To expect the universe to be benevolent was like imagining one could always win at a game of pure chance.