Maybe that’s the most important thing there is, Lump. If there is an answer to that question, Lump, that’s… — Samuel R. Delany

You’re you, Jo. You’re you and everything that went into you, from the way you sit for hours and watch Di’k when you want to think, to the way you turn a tenth of a second faster in response to something blue than to something red. You’re all you ever thought, all you ever hoped, and all you ever hated, too. And all you've learned.

“As time progresses,” Lump stated, “people learn. That’s the only hope.”

“The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.”

“Is that true?”

“I don’t know.”