Even the straightest path has two directions.

Societies as well as people become afraid of change as they grow older. It’s human nature. The young have adventures while the old sit at home and nurture their memories.

Everyone should find something they love doing. Then work isn’t work. It’s a part of themselves. Of who they are.

It’s still there, same as it ever was. But we see it differently as we get older.

But you need to cultivate patience, youngling. And you need to listen to my words of wisdom, because as far as you are concerned, I am Obi-Wan fucking Kenobi. Okay?

A poster by the door to the locker room showed a Jackaroo avatar dressed as Uncle Sam, pointing a white-gloved finger under the caption I Want You for Anal Probing.

When people go looking for something, they often find something else.

One thing that's certain about the future: it will have more history than the present.

The multiverse, she said, was like an old library whose shelves were packed with books arranged by a cataloguing system that ranked them according to similarity, each book containing within its covers a story that varied only slightly from the stories of its immediate neighbours, but by increasing degrees from those of increasingly distant books.

The past doesn’t change, does it?”“It’s still there, same as it ever was. But we see it differently as we get older.