“Could we ever switch to this or any of the many other rational systems? Unlikely: tradition is difficult to overcome.”
“Nature was tough, it could be dangerous, but unlike Dr. Cable or shay, or peris-unlike people in general-it made sense. The problems it threw at you could be solved rationally.”
“A life that is, like any other, unlike any other.”
“No system which implies control by privilege seekers has ever ended in any other way than collapse.”
“I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.”
“We can hear others, and we can travel with them without moving, and we can imagine them, and we are all connected one to the other by a crazy root system, like so many leaves of grass. But the game makes me wonder wheter we can really ever fully become another.”