“If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world?”

“When enter the whole new world, men will deal with new science.To embrace a new science, men need to get used to new wisdom.”

“Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well. So here we are I've assigned myself a new obligation. I'm going to stop undoing deconstructing I'm going to start building... ... What matters is what you are doing when you die... ... I want to be building.”

“This was not the old Chichikov. This was some wreckage of the old Chichikov. The inner state of his soul might be compared to a demolished building, which has been demolished so that from it a new one could be built; but the new one has not been started yet, because the infinitive plan has not yet come from the architect and the workers are left in perplexity.”

“What a world this would be if we just build bridges instead of walls!”

“There has to be new words to explain new worlds.”