“Going through the motions gives you plenty of time to examine the motions. I used to find this interesting. Now it has taken on the taint of meaninglessness.”

“I resent that the hours seem boring now, emptier. Going through the motions gives you plenty of time to examine the motions. I used to find this interesting. Now it has taken on the taint of meaninglessness. [...] This is the trap of having something to live for: Everything else seems lifeless.”

“I am watching the stars, admiring their complex trajectories through space and time. I am trying to give a name to the force that set them in motion.”

“I used to think the world was divided into good people and bad people, that you could pin responsibility for evil on certain definite people and punish the guilty. I’m still going through the motions.”

“But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip.”

“Things in motion stay in motion, or, if you just keep going, you'll get there (the first rule of Physics)”