Quotes
When you’ve heard one bagpipe tune you’ve heard them both.
p. 285
You have to let other people be right. It consoles them for not being anything else.
p. 94
“Hell is other actors,” Kirsten said. “Also ex-boyfriends.”
p. 49
Twenty-third Street wasn’t busy—a little early for the lunch crowd—but he kept getting trapped behind iPhone zombies, people half his age who wandered in a dream with their eyes fixed on their screens.
p. 160
It is delightful to be a woman; but every man thanks the Lord devoutly that he isn’t one.
p. 172
'There are standards of immorality as well as standards of morality, Robert. Make sure yours are high.'
“How did you…pass the time?” Sunday asked. “You couldn’t just ching out of it, could you?”
“We had a different form of chinging,” Eunice said. “An earlier type of virtual-reality technology, much more robust and completely unaffected by time lag. You may have heard of it. We called it ‘reading.’”
p. 228
“That doesn’t make the slightest bit of sense.”
“Welcome to politics.”
p. 253
“I thought debate was supposed to be healthy,” she countered.
“It is,” Auger replied, “so long as you don’t disagree with me.”
p. 17
“I feel as if I’m missing all the excitement.”
”In my experience,” Tunguska said, making himself a temporary seat, “excitement is always better when it happens to other people.”
p. 561
“Tanner, are you insane?”
“Very probably several kinds of insane,” I said. “But I’m afraid it doesn’t change anything. I’m perfectly happy with my current delusional system.”
p. 454
“Only trying to make conversation, friend.”
“Don’t bother—it’s an overrated activity at the best of times.”
p. 104
