“This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.”

“The law of the jungle which I learned at a young age, and have been trying to escape ever since, is that we what we must to survive.”

“It is we ourselves that we have to think about, no one else. That is the way the saints worked. They paid attention to what they were doing, and if others were attracted to them by their enterprise, why, well and good. But they looked to themselves first of all.”

“If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”

“Finns squares his shoulders—which have gotten a good deal sturdier since I last saw him. Or paid attention, at any rate. How long has it been since I actually looked? He's gotten awfully handsome; it can't have happened overnight.”

“And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention”