We claim the dignity of age, she thought, but the truth is, age leaves us without any dignity at all. - Elizabeth Bear

"You ever needed to disprove the existence of a Creator God," he said, "the miracle of efficiency that the human body isn't would be a fucking good place to start."

"Hypocrite," she said. But she laughed. "Doesn't it get tiring being so damned morally superior all the time?"

Any government founded on a political or religious agenda more elaborate than “protect the weak, temper the strong” is doomed to tyranny.