"Jane, the being who dwells in computers, she holds in her mind as perfect a picture as she can of the starship and all who are within it. The people also hold their own picture of themselves and who they are and so on. Then she moves everything from the real world to a place of nothingness, which takes no time at all, and then brings it back into reality in whatever place she chooses. Which also takes no time. So instead of starships taking years to get from world to world, it happens in an instant." Chap. 1, "I'm Not Myself," pp. 17-18

"He had never said to her the most obvious thing, that if there was anyone to blame, it was God, not him. After all, it was God who had made saints-well, almost saints-out of her parents, who died as they discovered the antidote to the...