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1 " What a place we find ourselves in now. What a mad and dangerous universe of possibility. "
― , Theatre of the Gods
2 " ... And when the giant clam opened you were standing there dressed only in kelps and weeds of the ocean. And you held in your hand a starfish, and you said, 'Take, my Queen, this is for you. I bring you the stars, the stars from the borderless sea. "
3 " There are many universes, perhaps an infinite number; that each contains, and is contained within every other; and that all of them sing together like voices in a choir. It is a beautiful thing - a song of infinite harmony. "
4 " But in this universe, the one he inhabited, he would always remain alive, he would always be in hell. "
5 " Fame. Everyone dreams of fame. You long to live forever, to gain the power of light. But fame is fickle. One minute you're a young man alone in the universe; the next you're traveling beyond the stars and making grand discoveries; the next you're being ridiculed for proposing it might be possible to travel beyond the boundaries of time and causality and exist in other dimensions; the next you're being defrocked and imprisoned for cosmic heresy; the next you're being exonerated from execution and sent ironically, on a mission of certain death - all because some queen had a dream that a starfish spoke to her. It's all typical, really. "
6 " Love can indeed exist in such a place as Carnassus, if only for a brief time, and only after the exchangeb of an agreed sum. "
7 " Keep a good ship,' his father had always said, and by that you should run your company, and your family as if it was a mighty ship of war. "
8 " Destroying a book is not the same as destroying a human life, argued the artificial philosopher Photozeiger. It is much more serious. For when you end the life of a book you destroy the ideas of countless thinkers who inspired it, and condemn future generations to darkness and ignorance. "
9 " The bosun knew, as you and I perhaps do not, that there is a big difference between being afraid and being a coward. "
10 " To recover frail embers from the flames of history, and to carry them, carefully, to the fires of our own age, so that we might have some grasp of the grand sweep of time, and also a sense that, though our lives are brief sparks, each has its moment within the epic story of human existence. "
11 " The truth is far, far stranger. "
12 " Our actions tell our story,' said Lambestyo, 'and when we die we leave our bootprints for everyone to see: bootprints that run towards or away, from people less fortunate than us. "
13 " Two encounters in the deepest space. The first terrifying enough; the second far too terrifying for those involved. "
14 " Destroying a book is not the same as destroying a human life,’ argued the artificial philosopher Photozeiger. ‘It is much more serious. For when you end the life of a book you destroy the ideas of countless thinkers who inspired it, and condemn future generations to darkness and ignorance. "
15 " Fame. Everyone dreams of fame. You long to live forever, to gain the power of light. But fame is fickle. "
16 " And by the time Captain Lambestyo had though of an answer and opened his eyes, the sun was rising. "
17 " Then the creature closed his eyes, and the children closed theirs, and as they fell towards the black abyss the arms of the universe opened wide to receive them. "
