Sublime

his underlying goal was to teach people that the universe was a far weirder place than they realized.

It was evidential proof that the human brain was capable of constructing an internal paradise.

“Madman! Wouldst attempt the impossible?! For no being made of matter can ever enter a system that is naught but the flux and swirl of alphanumerical elements, discontinuous integer configurations, the abstract stuff of digits!”

Holden’s an idiot, but he’s not stupid. If he realizes he’s being watched, he’ll start broadcasting pictures of all our Ganymede sources or something. Do not underestimate his capacity to fuck things up.”

Everyone thinks they have a book and a porn star in them. I don’t know about the book thing, but on the porn star note: get off my set.

Norton suddenly recalled the myth of Oceanus, the sea that, the ancients believed, surrounded the Earth. Here, perhaps, was an even stranger sea—not circular, but cylindrical.

There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.