“Most people bought the corporate party line. Experience and wisdom needed to make way for youth and beauty. The more people consumed, the better off was the economy. Newer. Bigger. Brighter. These were the things sought.”

“Everyone had believed for capitalism and democracy to grow, the corporation had to grow; though that was wrong, the idea stuck. Democracy was the meme, but corporate growth was an idea imbedded into that meme. Hard to shake one from the other.”

“The Immovable Object can also be construed as an idea whosetime has come. It’s an idea of proportions that the human mind canonly grasp a small portion. Like the idea of freedom during the daysof revolution—only a handful understand what it means for the longterm, but it’s the idea that cause people to take up arms, revoltagainst the ruling class and fight for what they perceive to befreedom.”

“Physical injury carries with it the fallout of mental injury, the damage never being equal to the traumatic event. E does not equal MC2 in this particular case. The logic of emotion carries no logic and hurt is an emotional value. I’m unsure what that value equals.”

“The progression of minor keys...they're meant to represent imperfection..."I understand. But that is a philosophical conceit. All artists strive toward perfection or else lack fire."Imperfections make the gods draw near. They crave to fix things. Same way some people leap in to finish other people's sentences. God loves nothing better than to break perfect things.”

“I love the way a list makes a big hodgepodge of things simmer down and behave.”

“It was loud. It was crowded. I hate crowds. I had to make small talk with a bunch of people I don’t know, and I’m terrible at that. And some guy I’d just met wanted to do perverted things to me with noodles.”- Adrian Broussard, page 15”