“Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.”

“Eve: All this riot and uproar, V... is this Anarchy? Is this the Land of Do-As-You-Please? V: No. This is only the land of take-what-you-want. Anarchy means "without leaders", not "without order". With anarchy comes an age or ordnung, of true order, which is to say voluntary order... this age of ordung will begin when the mad and incoherent cycle of verwirrung that these bulletins reveal has run its course... This is not anarchy, Eve. This is chaos.”

“With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid. And when they do, things will turn nasty”

“Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.”

“Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that.”

“... the most probable of all my theorems, is that life is ordered by the principles of some religion so peculiar and obscure it has no followers, and none may fathom it, nor know the rituals by which to court its favour.”

“This is not anarchy, Eve. This is chaos.”