“We are trained to be employees, but no one said that we have endure a limited salary that barely keeps pace with inflation.”

“There is one grand lie - that we are limited. The only limits we have are the limits we believe.”

“The majority of the employees here are civilians," explained my Alderman guide/protector/companion/would-be-executioner as we strode without a word to the security guards through the foyer towards the lifts. "They conduct themselves within perfectly standard financial services and regulations. There is one specialist suboperational department catering to the financing of more...unusual extra-capital ventures, and the executive assets who operate it have to undergo a rigorous level of training, psyche evaluation, personality assessment, and team operational analyses."We stared at him, and said, "We barely understood the little words.""No," he replied, "I didn't think you would.”

“Did you know there are thirty-two names for love in one of the Eskimo languages?" August said. "And we just have this one. We are so limited, you have to use the same word.”

“The only limits we have are the ones we give ourselves.”

“If we all had what we wanted to eat... We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry.”