“Bedways is rightways now, so best we go homeways.”

“Women now were told not to settle for second best, told that they deserved better, but at a time, it seemed, when there was so much less to go around.”

“We are homeless enough in this world under the best of circumstances without going to any special effort to test our capacity to be more so.”

“I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure ... Like, why did Paris Commune go wrong? Trotskyites. Why did the October Revolution go wrong? And so on ... OK, we screwed it up, but we can give the best theory why it had to happen.”

“So passed the seasons then, so they pass now, and so they will pass in time to come, while we come and go like leaves of the tree that fall and are soon forgotten.”

“That's life, MacKenzie. We can't go back, only forward. And we can't afford to waste the past. The best we can do is reframe it. We only have so many years on this earth. They all count.”