# Quote — John Varley, Millennium

> I sat on the bed and read the Gideon Bible until the food came. That Gideon sure had a weird sense of humor. Try “The Book of Genesis.”

- Author: [John Varley](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-varley.md)
- Book: [Millennium](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-varley/millennium.md)
- Page: 62
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Varley#Millennium_(1983)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-varley/millennium/i-sat-on-the

## More from this book

> By then I was sure the universe could no longer surprise me, nor interest me. I was wrong. It managed to do both in no more than ten minutes.

p. 205 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-varley/millennium/by-then-i-was.md)

> I hate inefficiency. You’d have to look a long long ways before you found a better example of it than the press conference.

p. 150 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-varley/millennium/i-hate-inefficiency.md)

> “You see…when you get right down to it, I don’t believe you have my daughter. I won’t until I see her. And having seen her, I won’t believe I could lose her again.”
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> Sherman looked at him for a long time.
>
> “The universe is, so far as I know, Doctor Mayer, indifferent to what you believe or disbelieve.”

p. 233 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-varley/millennium/you-see-when-you.md)