“I remember back when the only 'Google' was the sound a guy made when you punched him in the throat.”

“I never thought I would hear you expound the virtues of caring about people." I frowned. "I care about people. I just don’t like them.”

“No matter how tough you think you are, if you live long enough, eventually you get all squishy.”

“This is love if it's not with you, a terrible fiery something that makes people look away, and it feels like a punch in the throat.”

“Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable.”

“when I think about sex, you know, I want it to feel good. Not feel good, shut up, but right. Happy, not just banging away somewhere. You know, you should not just do it to do it. You should love the guy.”

“When a man's stories are remembered, then he is immortal.”