I have always valued quiet, and the eternity of it that I face is no more dreadful than the eternity of quiet that preceded my birth. - Joe Haldeman

It was making me a little queasy. Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop.

“Some are born crazy,” Amelia said. “Some achieve craziness. We had craziness thrust upon us.”

One thing most of us agree on is that the universe exists (people who deny that usually follow some trade other than science), so if some theoretical particle interaction would lead ultimately to the nonexistence of the universe, then you can save a lot of electricity by not trying to demonstrate it.