Then I added one oh after another, turning the phrase into catastrophic fallibility oh, catastrophic fallibility oh oh, and so on.

“What are you going to say to the Maternal Organism?” Dinah asked, as Ivy rummaged in the back of a storage bin for her bottle of tequila.

The drama of the first two-thirds of Seveneves is all in orbital mechanics and bolide fragmentation rates.

Never stop being you, Neal

The novel has been variously translated as Biography of the White-Haired Succuba and Romance of the White-Haired Maiden.

Stoecker claims to have eaten pizza for 2,450 days in a row.

Later, he meditates on the subject of walking: “one foot forward, and then the other foot forward”. On public schools: “everyone who lives in the district can go for free.” And on death: “We are all going there.”

Katie Tripp of the Save the Manatee Club tells Huff Post that manatee mating consists of slow, “lazy” group sex that occurs in the warm shallows of the ocean, calling it “The most relaxed orgy you’ll ever see,” and SaveTheManatee.org notes these multi-partner romps can last up to three weeks. Proper lovemaking cannot be rushed.

The main mind in “Ratner’s Star” is Billy Twillig, mathematician, specialist in zorgs, inventer of the stellated twilligon and the twillig nilpotent element, alumnus of the Center for the Refinement of Ideational Structures, Nobel laureate, a legend in his own time, but small for his age, which is 14.

You will not create anything shocking, you will not organize yourself and your friends into a pseudo-gothic feudal order.  You will not identify yourself with a sephiroth from one of the four worlds.

Most people are boring because they have guardian angels watching them, keeping them boring.