“The gray flaky ashes when he toed them broke open to an orange heart of burning wood.”- Narration

“The past changes. Our version of the past will interest the future to about the extent we're interested in whatever past the Victorians believed in.”- Bigend

“There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.”- Cayce Pollard

“That which is over-designed, too highly specific, anticipates outcome: the anticipation of outcome guarantees, if not failure, the absence of grace”- narration

“If you become interested in the health of the place where you are...I have a warning: you will see more destruction than progress.”- Jenny Odell

“Regardless of how high-tech your society might be, "peace" is an endless negotiation among free-acting agents whose wills cannot be engineered.”- Jenny Odell

“It don't never pay to underestimate a woman, 'specially one knows your sleeping habits.”- Sailor Ripley

“Ain't no beast so fierce as time, Lula. It's time makes us all lie down in the here and now or in the hereafter, one.”- Sailor Ripley

“All this marching up and down and cheering waving flags is simply sex gone sour.”- Winston Smith

“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”- Winston Smith

“These and all things started as nothing, latent with a vast energy-broth, but then we named them, and loved them, and, in this way, brought them forth.”- Roger Bevins III

“Love her he doesn't but the thought he puts into that young woman could launch a national product.”- author

“People sometimes mistake their own shortcomings for those of society.”- R. Daneel Olivaw

“Because heavenly fire no longer falls on corrupted cities, it is the camera lens that, like a laser, comes to pierce lived reality in order to put it to death.”- Baudrillard

“Love may fail, but courtesy will prevail.”- Starbuck

“Unions were admirable instruments for extorting something like economic justice from employers.”- Vonnegut

“Jesus took them all by stealth.”- Gospel of Phillip

“I don't know how to make friends and influence people, I fuck around too much, my reputation is bad.”- Ferdinand

“I wish the storm would make even more of a clatter, I wish the roofs would cave in, that spring would never come again, that the house would blow down.”- Ferdinand