Life shites on hope. - Robert Charles Wilson

“Consciousness,” according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way a garden slug secretes slime. It had no special ontological status. The “self” was a genetically modulated and biologically useful illusion.

So we can trust each other."
"It's the rest of the world we can't be sure about.

Must be a full moon," she said."Lawrence is turning into an asshole.