Truth is a perilous commodity," Julian admitted, "but so is ignorance, Adam—more so. - Robert Charles Wilson

I don’t believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive.

Reproduction, Nerissa thought: Ethan had once called it the blade of evolution. There was no intelligence in evolution, only the cutting-board logic of selective reproduction. She envisioned the work of evolution as a kind of blind, inarticulate poetry. We are the was it Charles Darwin had said? From so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved…There is grandeur in this view of life.
Grandeur or horror. The idea that all the kaleidoscopic strangeness of biological systems could unfold without guidance or motivation was almost too unsettling to accept.

Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely.