“It drops us into a vigorous current, a constant state of misguided control. The doomed generation takes a final step forward, ignoring all the signs that state the obvious, and leaps into a trip no drug known to man could ever encompass.”
“People are, at their heart, constantly moving toward a state of entropy. Much like this ship. We’re all spiraling out of control.”
“How am I supposed to take it easy when all around me these creatures are in a perpetual state of ignorance?"...”
“Billy is spastic in time, has no control over where he is going next, and the trips aren't necessarily fun. He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next.”
“No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us.”
“It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.”