“The world is full of ways and means to waste time.”

“Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.”

“Suicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn't seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too many to cover. Newsworthy deaths had to be exceptional. Most people go unobserved.”

“It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.”

“Where I'm living is not a storybook world. It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.”

“Probably.""Again with the probablys.""A world full of probablys," she said.”

“Huge organizations and me don't get along. They're too inflexible, waste too much time, and have too many stupid people.”