“Rail is such an undignified way to travel. All that rapid racing about. Floating has so much more gravitas.”

“We believe human begins have existed for only a small fraction of cosmic history, because human race has been improving so rapidly in knowledge and technology that if people had been around for millions of years, the human race would be much further along in it's mastery.”

“She had her head in a book. Like me she preferred reading about travel to actually traveling; it was so much more comfortable.”

“The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.”

“The car doesn’t so much drive as float above the road, like we’re making our way to Sydney in a hovercraft.”

“We all have someone we think shines so much more than we do that we are not even a moon to their sun, but a dead little rock floating in space next to their gold and their blaze.”