“Q: If you could be an animal, what kind of animal would you be?A: You already are an animal.”

“What is human behavior, except trying to prove that we're not animals?”

“Besides, animals don’t even have time. Only humans have time. It’s what makes us different.”

“And for a while they were happy in their own manner; they had the animal confidence money affords.”

“We then return our gaze to the mirror-boxed future-towns circling us-the hard drives of our culture, where the human tribe is making flesh its deepest needs and fears; teaching machines to think; accelerating the pace of obsolescence; designing new animals to replace the animals we've erased; value adding; reconstructing the future.”

“Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it’s not quite the same thing.”

“I thought about how odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people. The only activities I could think of that humans do that have no animal equivalent were smoking, body-building and writing. That's not much, considering how special we seem to think we are.”