The guaranteed cure for heartbreak: find pain that’s much, much worse.

The mind always found its way back to baseline.

This is the future, ” Lycan said. “Connecting people to each other directly.

Why was it so unlikely that you could meet your soul mate by hitting her with your vehicle? Why was it more likely you’d meet her at your cousin’s wedding?

I wiggle my eyebrows. 'Sorry, Evan, I can't make out with you wile the dog is aligning himself with a magnetic field.

No. I don't want to need anybody. I want someone to need me ... I want someone to need me.

The society of life on Mars, or the challenge of making Mars more livable, will have significant benefits on our attempts to modify and change in some ways the environment here on Earth.

Seeking means admitting that you do not know. Once you have cleared your slate, truth can imprint itself upon it.

The whole culture is under terrible pressure and fraught with worry. It's hard to get out of that box. That's the dominant situation all over the world.

Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself.

Not that I'd really been planning on keeping the attack secret; it had just been an option I'd wanted to keep open if I could.

Right now, offline and online are coming together because of smartphones.

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

America is now the dominant force and the only countervailing force is Europe.