The World Inside

Quotes

1. What counts is what’s happening inside him, his own artistic fulfillment. If he can blow their skulls, that’s a bonus. But this is ecstasy. The whole universe is vibrating around him. A gigantic solo. God himself must have felt this way when he got to work on the first day.

   p. 368

2. 

   But the mighty computer is stupid. Thinking with the speed of light but unable to cross the gaps of intuition.

   p. 483

3. 

   She seems fond of him. Getting to know him better, as though she has surmounted the barrier of cultural differences that made him seem so alien to her before. And he the same with her. The separations dwindling. Her world is not his, but he thinks he could adjust to some of its unfamiliar assumptions. Strike up a closeness. He’s a man, she’s a woman, right? The basics. All the rest is façade.

   p. 454

4. 

   Why should we become like you? We pride ourselves on not being like you.

   p. 451

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