When it comes to strangers with guns,” I told her, I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust.
The universe is always stranger than you think.
It didn’t matter how broad her imagination was, how cynical, how joyous and open, how well researched or wild minded. The universe was always stranger. Every dream, every imagining, however lavish and improbable, inevitably fell short of the truth.
The universe wasn’t just stranger than you knew, it was stranger than you could know.
The Universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan.
… sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?"
Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.
We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.
Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got used to it.
Now they were as strangers; worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.
The universe is not only queerer than we imagine, but queerer than we can imagine.
The world’s vast and strange, Hara, but no vaster and no stranger than our minds are. Think of that sometimes.