The Shockwave Rider

The theory was and always had been: this is the thing the solid citizen has no need to worry about. Important, later all-important question: what about the hollow citizen?

If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.

It's not because my mind is made up that I don't want you to confuse me with any more facts. It's because my mind isn't made up. I already have more facts than I can cope with.

One might as well claim that the tide which rubs pebbles smooth on a beach is doing the pebbles a service because being round is prettier than being jagged. It's of no concern to a pebble what shape it is. But it's very important to a person.

"But I was never put on trial, never convicted!"

"You are not entitled to a trial."

"Anybody's entitled to a trial, damn you!"

"That is absolutely true. But you see you are not anybody. You are nobody.

First we had the legs race. Then we had the arms race. Now we're going to have the brain race. And, if we're lucky, the final stage will be the human race.