“it's the belief, not the words, that mean everything. it's the floating.”
“Justice? What is justice? It's a mere word. It's an abstract word with no universal meaning. To different classes of people, justice means different things.”
“i mean, heather said, our bodies are just these things that we float around in. it's not like they belong to anyone”
“It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.”
“Meanings are translatable. Words are untranslatable… More briefly – a word is translatable, its sound is not.”
“After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleashed its greedy and - above all - its suicidal power. The belief is now that everything - and everyone - is fair game.”