Thing about crazies is, they’re crazy. You can’t even understand them in retrospect. - Gregory Benford

Nothing could be sure it was itself the original. So the only intelligent course lay in enjoying whatever life a being felt—living like a mortal, in the moment.

It was an example of what he thought of as the Law of Controversy: Passion was inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.

She had always admired the way bureaucracies spontaneously produced leaden prose, blandly sliding from the mouths of people who absolutely believed everything they said.