“Just be aware that you reach a point of diminishing, or even negative, returns as the specifications get more and more detailed.”
“The pleasure of novelty is by its very nature more subject than any other to the laws of diminishing returns.”
“Laboring through a world every day more stultified, which expected salvation in codes and governments, ever more willing to settle for suburban narratives and diminished payoffs--what were the chances of finding anyone else seeking to transcend that, and not even particularly aware of it?”
“When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if they'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.”
“Now I want to kiss her even more.Damn you! You just get more and more appealing.”
“Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.”