Words are the only bullets in truth’s bandolier. And poets are the snipers. - Dan Simmons

It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.

Sol found their tracts the usual combination of double talk and navel lint-gathering common to most religions.

I now understand the need for faith—pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith—as a small life preserver in the wild and endless sea of a universe ruled by unfeeling laws and totally indifferent to the small, reasoning beings that inhabit it.