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“Honey,” Jammer said, “you'll learn. Some things you teach yourself to remember to forget.”

“You were hurt,” Kumiko said, looking at the scar.

Sally looked down. “Yeah.”

“Why don’t you have it removed?”

“Sometimes it’s good to remember.”

“Being hurt?”

“Being stupid.”

The world hadn't ever had so many moving parts or so few labels.

I try to plan, in your sense of the word, but that isn't my basic mode, really. I improvise. It's my greatest talent. I prefer situations to plans.

It is what has happened, and is happening now, that determines the future. Therefore, there must be a great number of possible futures, each a possible consequence of what is being done now.

The tendency to accept that there are many paths to God derives from India's long-running traditions of tolerance between religions.

"It boils down to this. If a man, any man, claims to have had an experience which is outside all normal experience, it will be inferred, will it not, that he is in some way not quite a normal man? A small cloud, a mere wrack, of doubt and risk begins to gather above him. It is tenuous, too insubstantial for him to disperse, yet it casts a faint, persistent shadow.

There is, I imagine, no such thing as a normal human being, but there is a widespread feeling that there ought to be. Any organisation has a conception of 'the type of man we want here' which is regarded as the normal for its purposes. So every man there attempts more or less to accord to it - organisational man, in fact - and anyone who diverges more than slightly from the type in either his public, or in his private life does so to the peril of his career."

I had only my thoughts to occupy me, and they were not good company.

"But if they change me shape, and change me voice, and change me hair and change me face, as they say, what is it that is me, at all?" asked Peggy.

The world has so multiplied the causes of fear that no one is left entirely unafraid.

"There are, of course, risks. In fact, there are three distinct kinds of risk: the known ones which we can and shall prepare against; the known ones which we must trust to luck to avoid; and the entirely unknown."

"We have had a glorious past—but a glorious past is bitterness for a child with a hopeless future."