Or was that fatalism another good move in design space? Did the universe evolve eyes and wings and sense organs and bitter amusement at the prospect of death all the same way?

A few generations living and dying without a sky, and enclosed spaces lost the atavistic terror of premature burial.

No one lived forever. But you fought for every minute you could get. Bought a little more with a lot of hard work.

The usual state of nature is recovering from the last disaster.

The moral high ground is a lovely place. It won’t stop a missile, though. It won’t alter the trajectory of a gauss round.

Dead’s not good, but at least it’s simple.

Fayez whistled low. “That is not dead which can eternal lie. Or, y’know, whatever.

I’m a long-flight pilot. Pushing a little bubble of air-filled metal across an ocean of nothing is what I was born to do.

You want a shadow, you got to have light and something to get in its way.

You can order the sun to come up if you time it right. I’m not driving this bus. Making it do what I want would be like talking someone out of a seizure.

You know, ” Naomi said, “if you’re looking at hundreds of people burning to death as a problem solving itself, that may be more evidence that you’re on wrong side.

The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.

But of course, the universe does not conspire to put you in one place rather than another.

You know nothing, Jon Snow

Well, it's not so easy to give an answer when you ask a stupid question!

That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.

Valentines day are coming up and a German company has made chokolate in shapes of couples making love. I don't like them... I don't want my chokolate to have more fun than me.

A love astounds us or a pain consumes us and we forget that we glow on our own.

Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.

Carter Kane, 14, died tragically in Paris when he was eaten by his sister’s cat Muffin.

I would rather have a square inch of New York than all the rest of the world.