10 quotes
The essence of life is change, he said, and the essence of eternal life is eternal change.
Darwinia (1998)
I won’t put my ignorance on an altar and call it God.
Darwinia (1998)
I gather we’re not the most craven species in the galaxy, but we’re not the most angelic by a long shot.
Darwinia (1998)
“Maybe you were better off not knowing.”
“Ignorance is not bliss.”
Darwinia (1998)
He hated the idea of eulogizing himself. Some tasks are best left to others, surely including obituaries.
Darwinia (1998)
But really, who do you think we’re working for? Not some Sunday school god, not the proverbial loving shepherd. The shoving leopard, more like.
Darwinia (1998)
A lot of people have made political careers out of religious piety and the fear of foreigners, but that won’t last. Not enough foreigners or miracles to sustain the crisis.
Darwinia (1998)
After a gaudy sunset that land became an immense, limitless darkness. Too large, Guilford thought, too empty, and too plain a token of the indifferent machinery of God.
Darwinia (1998)
He was as alone as he had ever been, frighteningly alone, in a borderless land of shaded forests and rocky, abyssal gorges. But that was all right. He didn’t much mind being alone. It was what happened when people were around that worried him.
Darwinia (1998)
Last week the doctor at the Tilson Rural Clinic had shown him his X-rays, the too-easy-to-interpret shadows on his liver and lungs. Guilford had declined an offer of surgery and and last-gasp radiation therapy. This horse was too old to beat.
Darwinia (1998)