“I don't want to rule the universe. I just think it could be more sensibly organised.”

“This is the real unwritten rule: You don't want what you know you shouldn't. And I haven't just broken that rule. I have wrecked it, smashed it, and still... And still I want.”

“I don't want to go to university. I don't like unity and I hate verses. I just love the choruses of songs. ”

“I find economics increasingly satisfactory, and I think I am rather good at it. I want to manage a railroad or organise a Trust or at least swindle the investing public”

“What could be more real than the chemestries of our bodies being in perfect sync? And I don't think I want you, I know it."~Ethan”

“In very different ways, the possibility that the universe is teeming with life, and the opposite possibility that we are totally alone, are equally exciting. Either way, the urge to know more about the universe seems to me irresistible, and I cannot imagine that anybody of truly poetic sensibility could disagree.”