Must be a full moon," she said."Lawrence is turning into an asshole. - Robert Charles Wilson

Wow," Sue said. "You actually stole this?"
"We don't use that word," Elaine told her. "Chris has an unnamed high-level source.

There’s no drug that’ll make a stupid man smart.

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.