“Don't fall.It seems we've struggled for so long.We've trampledon the backsof apes toclutch the muddiedhems ofangels.”

“He seemed like a walking blasphemy, a blend of the angel and the ape.”

“The book of war, the one we've been writing since one ape slapped another, was completely useless in this situation. We had to write a new one from scratch.”

“OTTO. Apes don't read philosophy.WANDA. Yes they do, Otto. They just don't understand it.”

“[B]etter the beauty of struggle and futility than the illusion of accomplishment; for as we struggle, he would seem to say, so are we beautiful.”

“Things happen or they don't happen, that's all. Nothing is accomplished by sweat and struggle. Nearly everything which we call life is just insomnia, an agony because we've lost the habit of falling asleep. We don't know how to let go. We're like a Jack-in-the-box perched on top of a spring and the more we struggle the harder it is to get back in the box.”