“It was easy to find a sexual partner any time he wanted; friends, on the other hand, were a rare and precious commodity.”
“I have come to the conclusion that silence and time are the most precious commodities.”
“Danger is a very rare commodity in these times, monopolized by intelligence agencies and stuntmen.”
“When choosing sexual partners, remember: Talent is not sexually transmittable.”
“Information is not like money or any other commodity. The cracks that it can slip through are almost infinitely small, and it can be duplicated at almost zero cost. Soon information will be like air, like the weather, and as easy to control.”
“Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were slippery, unpredictable, changing their meanings without any pattern.”