“You are the central point about which his world spins.”

“Past a certain point it is not interesting to think about childhood as the central drama and adulthood as its reprise.”

“The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you. When the spinning stops, that'll be the time to worry. Not before.”

“Already he [humanity] is physically antique in this robot world he has created. All that sustains him is that small globe of grey matter through which spin his ever-changing conceptions of the universe.”

“It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.”

“But before I do,I open the case and watch the spinning arrow. It settles on a point, but I still spin, wondering where to go.”