-Expansion to your ego, friend. -At your expense. - Brian Aldiss

We can no longer believe that after death, if we have sinned, we shall enter hell. Hell has been acted out here on Earth in the time of Nazi Germany, when even the innocent went in their millions to a hell that beggars the imagination. A profound change in attitude has come about as a result.

They would tear the wiltmilt to living pieces until nothing of it remained — and if they happened on a human at the same time … well, it was the way.

You were fool enough to think that one hundred and fifty million years either way made an ounce of difference to the muddle of thoughts in a man’s cerebral vortex.