Time is a vastness," he said finally. "We tend to underestimate it. - Robert Charles Wilson

All the pious high-school bullshit about the Century of Peace had been revealed for what it was: as artificial as a plastic nativity scene and as hollow as a split piñata. The world was peaceful the way a drunken coed passed out at a frat party was peaceful: it was the peace that facilitated the fucking.

Don’t be upset. The world is full of surprises. We’re all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we’re seldom formally introduced.

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