“You can’t be the best all the time. But that’s what clones are for—to be you while you sleep.”
“You can’t dread what you can’t experience. The only death we experience is that of other people. That’s as bad as it gets. And that’s bad enough, surely.”
“You can’t think well while people are around you! Best thoughts visit us in the twilight of solitude!”
“My clones will look like me, and therefore I’ll treat them like myself—starting with spending all their hard-earned money. You can’t love someone else if you can’t first love yourself.”
“Making money for my clones, now that’s what I call self-enrichment. Having all my clones working for me, working for free, and enriching me, now that’s what I call social progress. Ah, but that’s life, no?”
“And that’s why I can’t go out with you. I’m not going to become a number you can’t identify. It’s not what I’m looking for.”