Why is it," Joss said, "that whenever I find you, you are always about to hop in bed with my employer? - Connie Willis

There are moments when rather than reforming the human race I’d like to abandon it altogether and go become, say, one of Dr. O’Reilly’s macaques, which have to have more sense.

One of the greatest difficulties I encounter in my research is that people want to believe that their dreams mean something, but all the research I’m doing seems to indicate just the opposite.

It’s the light, she thought. Everyone looks like a cutthroat by torchlight. No wonder they invented electricity.