David Mitchell

What is "poker"?

A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.

He said the giant was a deity that offered salvation from a meaningless cycle of birth and rebirth, and perhaps the cracked stonework still possessed a lingering divinity.

I became a scientist because... it's like panning for gold in a muddy torrent. Truth is the gold.

Anything is true if enough people believe it is.

Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.

Unanimity would maintain order. Enforcers aren't all Union agents.

Even Yoona~939 chose death over slavery.

Your version of the truth is the only one that matters.

Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.

Fantasy. Lunacy.

All revolutions are, until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities.

A Soul's value is the dollars therein.

Rumors ricocheted around the dome: a Yoona had kidnapped a boy, no, a baby; no, a pureblood had kidnapped a Yoona; an enforcer had shot a boy; no, a fabricant had hit the seer whose nose was bleeding. All the while, Papa Song surfed noodle waves on His Plinth.

The very words "California Bound" are dusted in gold & beckon all men thitherwards like moths to a lantern.

Under the Enrichment Laws, consumers have to spend a fixed quota of dollars each month, depending on their strata. Hoarding is an anti-corpocratic crime.