"And I had been manipulated, surely, but an actor, of all people, has no business complaining he has been tricked."

"Long-term thinking requires a clarity the natural human mind is not good at."

"He seemed dead, but perhaps “dead” meant something different. Perhaps it meant something less permanent."

"The place gave a bad name to dingy and escaped being run-down only because it had never been up."

"Just because I did good doesn’t mean I don’t feel bad, because the feeling bad, it’s not particularly because of anyt…"

"I am nothing but a scientist of sufficiently advanced technology, which is to say a magician."

"Memory is fallible. Dreams overwrite the reality, fond fantasies inform the dreams."

"Aunt Charla is one of those people who take pride in not knowing about anything that’s changed in the world in the la…"

"I’m telling it now. And I’m trying to remember how it actually was. Not just how I remember remembering it. But memor…"

"The emergent ecologies that were recolonising the place were very light on mammals and birds. You got little ones, mo…"