“The billion billion paths of his life lay open before him, waiting for his first choices, for the first changes in the world around him to eliminate a million futures every second.”

“An idiot is no smarter if a billion people agree with him and a genius is no dumber if a billion people don't.”

“God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises.”

“It would be three-dimensional chess with a million billion squares and a million pieces, and with the rules changing ever move.”

“But he lay like a warrior taking his rest,
With his martial cloak around him.”

“If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice.”

“It's the fate of the lion in winter: all his billions, all his television channels cannot rescue him from the mockery that rains down on the aged lecher, his powers visibly waning.”

“And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first.”

“The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life.”

“Everybody yelled at him, and laughed at him, and sassed him, and he sassed back, and said he'd attend to them and lay them out in their regular turns, but he couldn't wait now, because he'd come to town to kill old Colonel Sherburn, and his motto was, "Meat first, and spoon vittles to top off on."”