“You simply cannot reconcile a mandate to love one’s neighbour, whilst then adding a list of openly bigoted exceptions.

– Matt Gemmell, on the Pope, Morality and Persecution

“The human could be translated out of its body and into machines, free of the meat, of the flesh. We would hang there, wired into a reticulation of phosphorescent splines.

– Paul Ford, Just Like Heaven, in his elaborate answer to the question Is there an afterlife?