“Sitting here in a bar with an asexual cyborg who is probably the only other normal person on the whole goddamned planet.”

“The more "normal" the person seems, the sicker she probably is.”

“Cyborg writing must not be about the Fall, the imagination of a once-upon-a-time wholeness before language, before writing, before Man. Cyborg writing is about the power to survive, not on the basis of original innocence, but on the basis of seizing the tools to mark the world that marked them as other.”

“When it comes to arrogance, power, and lack of accountability, journalists are probably the only people on the planet who make lawyers look good.”

“How did he get here? What drew him back? Easy answer: the monkey bars. Not-so-easy answer. . . . What took him away in the first place? Gyroscopic deflections are only partly to blame. Who can stop a revolving planet? Who can predict where on the table a spinning quarter will fall flat?”

“It is only on the basis of the probable and the apparent that men bereft of a sixth sense are able to sit in judgment over other men.”