"That’s the Zone for you: come back with swag, a miracle; come back alive, success; come back with a patrol bullet in …"

"He didn’t know the driver, a new guy, some pimply beaked kid, one of the thousands who had recently flocked to Harmon…"

"I wonder why we liked being praised. There’s no money in it. Fame? How famous could we get? He became famous: now he’…"

"The problem is we don’t notice the years pass, he thought. Screw the years—we don’t notice things change. We know tha…"

"Suddenly, for no apparent reason, he felt a wave of despair. Everything was useless. Everything was pointless. My God…"

"“Your question falls under the umbrella of a pseudoscience called xenology. Xenology is an unnatural mixture of scien…"

"We usually proceed from a trivial definition: intelligence is the attribute of man that separates his activity from t…"

"Intelligence is the ability to harness the powers of the surrounding world without destroying the said world."

"There’s a need to understand, but that doesn’t require knowledge. The God hypothesis, for example, allows you to have…"

"And you know, Richard, I’m a physicist and therefore a skeptic."