“Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one’s emotional plane.”
“Men who fear demons see demons everywhere.”
“it seemed to him that no matter what evils a man had committed, making him suffer purely for the sake of suffering was pointless. It didn't undo the harm he had wrought; it didn't please anyone or improve anyone's life.”
“It was as though he didn't exist, and then suddenly, he was everywhere.”
“...So in his own way Guy Clinch confronted the central question of his time, a question you saw being asked and answered everywhere you looked, in every headline and haircut: if, at any moment, nothing might matter, then who said that nothing didn't matter already?”